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Tendai Mushawapwere

Age: 51

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Tendai

Mushawepwere was bornin Mutoko, in the Chief Nyamukoho

Chichobve Kraal. He is the third born in a family of four , three boys and one girl. He is of Nzou

Samanyanga Totem.

Tendai

grew up in Chitungwiza were he completed his primary education at Seke No. 1

Primary School and his Ordinary Level at Seke NO. 4 High School. At school

Tendai was good at drawing and he found it easy to carve contemporary

visual art under Chikusa Padzuwas supervision.

He

started his sculpting career in 1994. He was taught by Chikuwa Pasuwa and

worked with him for two years. He became a full time artist when he decided to

venture on his own in 1996.

What

inspired him to carve is his black culture andhistory, which he believes is becoming defunct in

carving. He wants to help revive this art

with other artists like him. He does not only carve sculpture related

to hisculture butthat whichrevolves around him,

in the present day of his life and the life in itself as a whole.

He

markets his art mostly in Europe & the USA through collectors who visit his gallery

from time to time.

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A real treat here in Wimbledon. At Cannizaro Park a superb open-air exhibition of Zimbabwean sculpture. There were many pieces, large and small, and a wide variety of different stone used in imaginative ways. And, overall, a real sense of Africa, linked to a long artistic tradition.

I was told that many of the sculptors had been trained within their own families: a father, an uncle, a grandfather, passing on the old skills.

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