Sculptor Stanley Mutanga to create while in Canada...

Sculptor Stanley Mutanga to create while in Canada for exhibition

Sculptor Stanley Mutanga will be in Canada later in the year to bring the people closer to his art which is on exhibit at a gallery there.

“He will be giving demonstrations of how to carve. He’ll actually be making art while he’s here so people can see and understand how that works,” co-owner of Gunguo Art & History Farm, in Kingston Ontario, Canada, Gillian Kupakuwana-Suk told Global News.

**Stanley Mutanga with his piece "It Will Continue"- semiprecious stone sculpture- Simuka Sculpture Collective/Facebook**

Visitors take a walking trail to view the sculptures, and while the gallery features over one hundred pieces from artists across Zimbabwe, one name, Stanley Mutanga, appears more frequently than the rest.

Kupakuwana-Suk said the exhibit sheds light on African sculptors for Canadian art consumers.

Kupakuwana-Suk grew up in Zimbabwe and while a piece by artist Gift Tembo may have been her first purchase, it was definitely not the last one.

“The concept really began out of a love of African sculpture”

She says that love led to the creation of a residency in Zimbabwe that allowed sculptors to learn from one another.

“Once we started accumulating, we started to realize we needed to make this sustainable, we needed to be able to have these artists actually sustain their lives and have livelihoods that are dignified,” she said.

It was that realization that spurred Kupakuwana-Suk and her husband William Suk to open the Gunguo Art & History Farm in Glenburnie.