Small Bird In The Nest
Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro

Springstone

30cm (h)
14cm (w)
10cm (d)

SOLD

The upper curved part of this lovely little sculpture represents the bird; the hole below, the nest.

Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro is one of our best young abstract sculptors and won the Bernard Matemera Foundation 'Artist Of The Year' prize in 2009.

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.