Generations
Authur Manyengedzo

'Cobalt' Stone

74cm (h)
33cm (w)
13cm (d)

23kg

£595

This piece is on loan to an exhibition at Exbury Gardens until July.

"There are certain norms and values we inherit from generation to generation. Like Shona art, which we have inherited from the second generation, and which they inherited from the first generation."

With its informal apprenticeships, Shona sculpture is something that is handed from one experienced artist to eager youngsters, just like so many other aspects of culture that are passed down by the older generation.

Cobalt stone is the local Zimbabwean name given to this purple and green serpentine. It does not, as far as we know, contain any cobalt but it may originally have been found near a cobalt mine. Nowadays, it is mined near Chiweshe, in northern Zimbabwe.