Dear friend
As I was finding alternative ways of surviving, both as an employed person by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and as an artist, COVID-19 kind of revived new hopes of reaching clients to see and consume my work. Imagine the only source of income is your artwork the only source of income and there are no buyers for your artwork. Digital platforms have become the new spaces for marketing and reaching more clients. Like many artists in Bulawayo, I was trained to respond to the tourist markets and when that market disappeared in the early 2000s many of my peers moved out of the country and some completely stopped practicing. I was "fortunate" to be asked to join the Friends of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 2006 to run the Visual Arts Development and Outreach Program supported by the HIVOS.
Digital platforms like
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram reconnected me with the world and rejuvenated
the artist in me. As I continue to learn and establish myself in this creative
and studio space, so much is happening and I am pleased to share with you that I
have decided to set up two projects that will better characterize my practice.
In the past 5 years, I have been developing my creative practice to complement my finances an Institutional Curator is a job that I have fallen in love with until I was fired in June 2021. Centre for Contemporary Arts Bulawayo CCAB, is one project that will carry the Curatorial and arts administration work. Zulunlimitedart is the other personal studio project that I am reviving and loving, to showcase my work as a sculptor, carver, and scrimshaw artist.
I will be sharing how these two projects are developing here but you can also like my pages on Facebook.
Lets keep in touch.
