Friend

Today's Featured Sculpture

Friend by Kakoma Kweli

Genre: Family/Children

Stone type: Serpentine

Sculptor Information

One of Tengenenge’s success stories: Kakoma began sculpting at the age of 82. With the death of his half brother Makina Kumeya, Kakoma walked hitch hiked, took buses and trains to get to his brothers funeral. At Tengenenge Kakoma met up with Tom Blomefield and after staying at the sculpture community for a length of time he was persuaded to start sculpting. Kakoma never looked back and his sculpture could be found in many group exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Holland, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Kakoma had a large exhibition following in Holland where his angular style was very popular. His style was flat with a mask like quality with minimal rough features, archaic simplicity. Kakoma married one of the Tengenenge maidens and lived a very colourful like until his death in 1998.

Kakoma was awarded numerous distinctions by the National Gallery at their heritage exhibitions.