Growing up in Zimbabwe you cannot avoid at least some contact with stone sculpting. As a young boy I was often watching different people sculpting, but I never had the interest to sculpt myself. Being a township boy I had a great interest in football. I spent all the time I could possibly get training to be a professional footballer. Unfortunately (or luckily if that’s how you look at it) I got a knee injury that put a stop to my football ambition. Since I did not do well in school it wasn’t going to be easy to get a job, I had to be creative to get myself a job. That is when sculpting came up.
I was 19yrs old when I started sculpting and it did not take me long to figure it out even though I did not have anyone to instruct me the first 1½years, I think because I grew up watching sculptors working.
People in the village that I lived in, in the Zimbabwean countryside started telling me how good I was and that I should take it serious, so I decided to go to Harare where there were big time sculptors, and I went to Chinembiri Sculptors centre. There were some good sculptors, I learnt a lot from watching them while they work. 6 months after I had started at the sculptors centre my parents decided were to move back to South Africa. I went together with them. We first lived in Durban where I worked at the BAT centre. We later moved to Cape Town, where I participated at a workshop that was instructed by 4 prominent Zimbabwean sculptors from the prestigious CHAPUNGU sculpture park in Harare where some of the world’s best sculptors work. After the workshop the South African National Arts Council awarded me a prize to go and study at Chapungu Sculpture Park.
My work has been represented at exhibitions in South Africa, Zimbabwe, England, Germany, Holland and USA just to mention a few.
I now live in Denmark, Copenhagen with my family. I work from my studio at Råmandsgade 52.
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