Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture has gained world-wide recognition since it first
emerged as a distinctive new art practice in the late 1950s. The large
varieties and abundant supplies of naturally occurring rock formations of the Zimbabwe
landscape provided artists with a medium unique to their country. Starting out
as a small and eager group of students at a newly established painting and
sculpture workshop at Harare's National Gallery (now the National Gallery of
Zimbabwe) in 1957, artists soon mastered the technical skills required to make
their impression on the resistant stone boulders and began to create forms of
great sculptural variety and complexity. Read more . . .
