Euwitt Nyanhongo carves serpentine and opal with his hands, pulling figures from the same Nyanga mountains where his father taught him to see.

The son of Claude Nyanhongo, one of the pioneers of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, Euwitt began shaping rock at twelve, often finishing his father’s works during school holidays. Now based between Zimbabwe and Cambridge, he sources Springstone, Lapidolite, Leopard Rock and Nyanga serpentine directly from the mountains where he was raised.

The process is unmediated. No power tools, no preliminary moulds. Nyanhongo works the stone by hand until figures emerge: humans, animals, spirits drawn from Shona mythology and the natural world. The material dictates as much as the sculptor does.

What surfaces are neither purely traditional nor contemporary? The sculptures carry the weight of their origin — geological and ancestral – while remaining unmistakably his own.

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