Beehive
Munyaradzi Jeche

Springstone

48cm (h)
23cm (w)
16cm (d)

15kg

SOLD

In rural areas, people put hollow cylindrical objects into the trees to encourage the bees to build a hive there, thus providing a source of honey that can be harvested periodically.

Art critic Celia Winter-Irving was incredibly impressed with Munyaradzi Jeche's pieces in the Chitungwiza Arts Centre competition in September 2007. She is very influential and this 'discovery' may help Jeche's career enormously.

Springstone is the local name for a hard variant of serpentine stone. It is a particularly good sculpture medium, as it has a very even internal structure of small grains of rock; it is dense and has very few flaws. It is the favoured medium for Zimbabwe's most famous sculptors.