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Celia Winter Irving Celia Winter Irving, Australian, is author of thirteen published books on Zimbabwe磗 stone sculpture which have earned her international and local respect. While she has held three key positions in art institutions in Zimbabwe, it is through her overall career as writer of published books on the sculpture, her regular columns on stone sculpture and Zimbabwean art and culture in the Herald, Southern Times and the Sir Zimbabwe in Flight journal Sky Host have been recognized as her major achievements in Zimbabwe and in the international art arena.
In Australia she was Director of the Irving Sculpture Gallery in Sydney and her first contact with Zimbabwe was her co hosting two major exhibitions of the stone sculpture at her Gallery with Chapungu Sculpture Park. Tom Blomefield Founder Director of Tengenenge opened the second exhibition, and when she came professionally to Zimbabwe to write an article on the stone sculpture for British art journal Studio International she went straight to Tengenenge to do her field work and original and applied research. Her identity in Zimbabwe is much couched with her informal association with Tengenenge as a close colleague of Tom Blomefied, a publisher author, an international curator and lecturer and a teacher of painting. Her two books on Tengenenge are 创Tengenenge Art Sculpture and Painting创 (World Art foundation) Eerbeck The Netherlands April 2001, and 创Soottie the Cat at Tengenenge创 (Tengenenge Pvt Ltd Mvruwi Zimbabwe May 2001), Dutch Edition Kit Publishers Amsterdam The Netherlands 2004, German Edition translator Benno Raestrup (to be published by Bola Cultural Institute, Essen Steele, Germany in 2007). Her first book 创Stone Sculpture in Zimbabwe Context Content and Form创 (Roblaw Publishers, Harare Zimbabwe November 1992, Craftsman House Fine Arts Press Australia, International Edition October 1993) is considered a classic work on the subject, an exploration of the cultural character of the stone sculpture over the years since its inception, with chapters on early visual culture in Zimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe and rock art), traditions of Zimbabwean painting and the then government support for the arts of Zimbabwe, Broader in scope than other texts on the stone sculpture this remains an invaluable text for scholars and students of the stone sculpture in Zimbabwe and abroad, In addition she has written books on individual sculptors, the late Anderson Mukomberanwa, Lazarus Takawira, Agnes Nyanhongo, Philip Kotokwa, Mike Munyaradzi and Merchers Chiwawa (formerly of Tengenenge). The text of the latter is in English and German; all books have been well launched and well reviewed in the Zimbabwe print and electronic media. Her 创New Visions in Stone创 Utonga Gallery North Carolina, USA) is a cutting edge book concerning directions taken by the stone sculpture in a 0globalised art world. In progress is a book on the kate Bernard Matemera of Tengenenge, and planned for publication a sequel to Pieces of Time (an anthology of articles published by the author in the Herald Zimbabwe Mirror l999-2202 (Mambo Press, Gweru Zimbabwe October 1994). The sequel will be articles published by the author Herald, Southern Times and Air Zimbabwe Sky Host 2003-2007 June. Currently she is engaged with the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe writing a commissioned book on the National Arts Council Arts Merit Awards Nama, for which she has been visual arts jurist and minotor variously over the past six years. She is a practicing abstract painter. During the course of her time in Zimbabwe she has been an advisor to many students working on theses for Zimbabwe磗 stone sculpture from Universities in Zimbabwe and overseas. From 2004-2007 January she was Curator at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. She has written many catalogue essays for overseas galleries and public art museums dealing with the stone sculpture. Back to Promoters & Biographers >> |
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