Frog by Fungai Mwarowa
Weight: 4kg
Genre: Animals
Stone type: Lepidolite
Sculptor Information
Fungai Mwarowa was born in 1964 and has been sculpting since the mid eighties. Initially he began as an assistant to Joram Mariga and from 1988 he pursued his own work. Encouraged by Mariga to work from harder varieties of stone, Mwarowa sculpts from Leopard Rock and Lepidolite.
The inspirations for his pieces, which usually take a week or more to complete, come from traditional Shona beliefs. In some work, however, Mwarowa tries to incorporate ideas from Western culture. For example, of his piece, Monkey (1994 Springstone) he says, “Traditionally, we have always lived in round huts, not straight houses like that in Western culture. We have always had this shape in our country, but I was trying to put Western shape in this piece”.
For the future: “I want to be a leading sculptor… Mr. Mariga taught me about the hard stone. I like his work because he is the one who inspires people to try their talents”.
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