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Locardia Ndandarika and her daughter Norma at our wedding
Locardia Ndandarika (and her daughter Norma) joined us at our wedding and made everybody dance!

Locardia Ndandarika passes away

7th January 2023

Locardia Ndandarika, grand dame of Zimbabwean sculpture, sadly passed away in early January 2023. She will be much missed.

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Artist Sylvester Mubayi with Tim and Emma

Sylvester Mubayi, last of the ‘first generation’ greats, passes away

14th December 2022

Sylvester Mubayi has passed away. His career spanned decades. Sylvester’s greatest gift to the Zimbabwean sculpture community has been his continuing commitment to nurturing aspiring young artists.

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Edward Chiwawa with his sculpture 'Protective Mother'

Shona sculpture loses a sekuru* – Edward Chiwawa passes away

29th October 2022

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that senior artist Edward Chiwawa passed away last night. The ‘first generation’ of Shona sculptors has lost one of its great names, and the Shona sculpture community is in mourning.

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Guruve's trade stand at Chelsea Flower Show

RHS Chelsea Flower Show goes virtual for 2020

12th May 2020

The world-famous Chelsea Flower Show has been cancelled this year, like so many other things. The Royal Horticultural Society will be creating a virtual Chelsea Flower Show during show week.

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new sculpture by Nesbert Mukomberanwa

New 2020 Shona Sculpture collection now online!

9th April 2020

New 2020 sculpture collection now live on Guruve’s online gallery.

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close up of Ndebele Girl by Tutani Mgabazi

Guruve’s News – Spring 2019

8th April 2019

News from Guruve – the 2019 collection of Zimbabwean Shona sculpture has been launched on our web gallery; spinning sculptures added to the web gallery; 2019 events list finalised

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Lovemore Bonjisi portrait photo

Lovemore Bonjisi

Sculptor

Celia Winter-Irving (respected Shona art critic and ex-curator of the National Gallery in Harare) described artist Lovemore Bonjisi as ‘The Shona Michelangelo’. Lovemore Bonjisi was born in January 1985 in Ruwa, a small town just east of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. He is the youngest in a large family, many of whom are stone sculptors. Lovemore […]

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