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ZIMBABWE STONE SCULPTURE
“His work displays the traditional Mariga ‘trademarks’ of wide expressive faces with small limbs ...”
FREDDY MARIGA
Freddy was born in 1962. He comes from Zvimba and attended school in Mashonaland West. In 1979 he began to sculpt. It was his father, the late and respected sculptor Joram Mariga, who encouraged and nurtured his son. Joram recognized Freddy’s ability and love of sculpting and taught him all he knew. In 1979 Joram and the family, with Freddy, were transferred back from Nyanga in the Eastern Highlands to their home area of Zvimba where both son and father continued sculpting.
Freddy started working with Stone Dynamics Gallery in 1989 and since then his work has been displayed and sold by the Gallery in exhibitions at home and abroad. Freddy’s aim is to follow in his father’s footsteps and become as well-known and respected as he was. His work displays the traditional Mariga ‘trademarks’ of wide expressive faces with small limbs, and his medium is usually very hard stone such as granite or Leopard Stone from Nyanga in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe.
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