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Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro

Cobalt Stone

49cm (h)
65cm (w)
19cm (d)

61.5kg

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There is a very pleasing swirling movement to this interesting abstract sculpture by one of our best young sculptors, Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro.

This is the sculpture that won the Bernard Matemera Foundation 'Artist Of The Year' prize in 2009. It was judged to be the most original piece, and that Tanya was uninfluenced by others around him, which is very hard to achieve.

Cobalt stone is the local Zimbabwean name given to this purple and green type of 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.