We are a sculpture park, gallery and gift shop a short walk from Victoria Falls. The setting shapes how everything is shown: outdoors as often as in, in natural light, among pieces meant to be walked around rather than viewed through glass.
Walking the park is free. Nobody will follow you round unless you want them to, and if you do, someone will tell you who carved what.
The sculpture parkTwenty-three artists are represented here. Most carve stone, in the Shona tradition that became one of the most significant modern art movements to come out of the continent. But the same community threads the beadwork, prints the cloth, strings the jewellery and carves the wood that fills the shop.
We work across generations: carvers cutting today, alongside pieces from first-generation masters whose place in Zimbabwe's art history is long settled.
Bernard Sakarombe, sculptorEvery piece bought here, whether it leaves in hand luggage or ships across the world, goes back to the artist or their family. That is as true of a five-dollar beaded bird as of a five-figure sculpture. For most of the people we work with, a sale is a direct part of their livelihood, not a transaction filtered through layers of resale.
At the gift shop