Dominic Benhura
Dominic Benhura | |
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| Born | Dominic Benhura 1968 Murewa, Rhodesia |
| Nationality | Zimbabwean |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Shona sculpture |
Dominic Benhura (born 1968) is a
sculptor
.
Benhura was born in
Tafara, and Benhura went to live there at the age of ten; he lived with his cousin Tapfuma Gutsa, already a well-known sculptor. Benhura began polishing his cousin's sculptures, but soon began carving himself, making small offcuts
before moving onto large stone. He sold his first piece at twelve.
Despite having no formal training, Benhura turned to sculpting full-time upon the finish of his schooling, showing his work at the
resident artist program there in 1990, staying until acquiring a home in Athlone, Harare, in 1995. Through the program he worked on larger pieces; he also began traveling during this period, attending workshops in Botswana, the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany
. He began to add metal to his stone sculptures.
Benhura is considered to be part of the second generation of Zimbabwean stonecarvers. In 2016, he sculpted a statue of Robert Mugabe.
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