"Dozing in the Sun"

Shona Sculpture


By Morgan Chijumani in Fruit Serpentine  45cm.




 
Morgan was born the second of five children on November 30, 1974 in the eastern Zimbabwean city of Mutare. Finishing his 'O'-Level education in 1990, he came to Harare in 1993 to look for work, but with little success.

Searching for an alternative, he started thinking about his father who used to carve canoes and drums. In 1994, he attempted to take this up as well but found it difficult to get large pieces of timber. Instead, he began to sculpt stone using his father's art as inspiration. Morgan was 24 years old when he began sculpting and he is self-taught in stone sculpture.

Morgan prefers to work mainly in fruit serpentine, a hard and colourful stone, to create his characteristic shapely ladies and abstract figures. Many of his pieces have been shown in galleries throughout France, the United States and The Netherlands as well as other countries around the world.