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Norbert Shamuyarira

Location: Chinhoyi
Age: 58

Works for Sale

  • Relaxing Price on application
    Relaxing
    Price on application
  • Resting Peacefully Price on application
    Resting Peacefully
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Previous Works

  • Too Much Going On Not for sale
    Too Much Going On
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  • Praying Together Not for sale
    Praying Together
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  • Tending My Garden Not for sale
    Tending My Garden
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  • Feeding Birds Not for sale
    Feeding Birds
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  • One Step Forward Not for sale
    One Step Forward
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  • Walking On By Not for sale
    Walking On By
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  • African Queen Not for sale
    African Queen
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  • Shona Queen Not for sale
    Shona Queen
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  • Six Months Not for sale
    Six Months
    Not for sale
  • Majestic Lady Not for sale
    Majestic Lady
    Not for sale

Norbert Shamuyarira, one of the best artists of the post-independence generation once said, up to now, I still dont know what happiness is and one feels the prevailing sense of sadness and insecurity in his work. The characters he carves always move with self-protecting gestures, and appear haunted by fear or despair. The softness of their facial features and his great mastery in handling the stone, often moderate the tragic nature of his work. His art focuses on the absence of women.

Born in Chinhoyi in 1962, Norbert Shamuyarira lost his mother when he was nine, and very soon after her death, was deserted by his father. His brother later committed suicide. He started sculpting in 1979 with Bernard Takawira and worked with him for four years in Chitungwiza.

For the first video footage taken of Norbert see below

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It’s hard to imagine the difficulty involved in transporting more than 300 stone sculptures from Zimbabwe on a world tour – some weighing so much it takes five men to lift them – but the team behind ZimSculpt has managed this tedious task for over a decade, and brings this beloved Zimbabwean art form to VanDusen Botanical Garden for its third and final year in Vancouver.

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