Government is reportedly planning to transform Tengenenge Arts Gallery in Guruve into a tourist resort because of its historical significance and the pivotal role it has played in promoting the development of the arts sector. This was revealed by National Arts Gallery of Zimbabwe director Raphael Chikukwa during a stakeholder consultative meeting in Harare on…
Tom Blomefield (95) one of the initiators and pioneering promoters of contemporary Zimbabwe Shona sculpture has died in Holland. Blomefield who founded Tengenenge Art Community at his farm in Guruve in 1966 died on Wednesday morning. In a statement on facebook, his son Stephen Blomefield said his father will be sorely missed by tens of…
In Zimbabwe, the Shona people were traditionally known as “the People of the Mist”, since they inhabited the mist-shrouded Inyanga Mountains, from whose stone their descendants have been creating extraordinary sculpture over the past century or so. The Shona are the oldest and also the largest ethnic group in the country, and the legendary guardians…
