Dancer
Munyaradzi Jeche

Springstone

67cm (h)
23cm (w)
23cm (d)

19.5kg

£725

Within this graceful twisting sculpture is a sashaying dancer with hands raised ecstatically in the air.

Munyaradzi imbues the stone with a subtle dynamic movement. Before her death, Shona sculpture's best-known art critic Celia Winter-Irving picked Munyaradzi Jeche's work out as being the most promising she had seen for a long time. Munyaradzi Jeche is definitely the man of the moment and has a very rosy future.

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.