- Agnes Nyanhongo
Agnes Nyanhongo (born 1960) is a
Zimbabwe ansculptor . Together withColleen Madamombe , she is regarded as the most successful female Zimbabwean stone sculptorwho.A native of
Nyanga , Nyanhongo is the daughter of first-generation sculptorClaud Nyanhongo and sister ofGedion Nyanhongo , and spent much time helping in her father's studio as a girl. She began sculpting full-time early in life, and in 1983 entered the B.A.T. Workshops inHarare , where she spent three years. Stylistically, her work is very similar to that of her father, and takes as its theme female issues of various sorts. Her sculptures are in the permanent collection of theChapungu Sculpture Park in Harare, in [http://www.chapungusculpturepark.com Loveland, CO] , and also at [http://www.moaonline.org Museum of Outdoor Arts] in Englewood, Colorado .References
* [http://www.postcolonialweb.org/zimbabwe/art/sculptors/anyanhongo/bio.html Biographical sketch]
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