Hidden Gem · 2
- National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo 75 J.M.N. Nkomo St, L. Takawira Ave, Bulawayo
The National Gallery's Bulawayo branch fills Douslin House, a 1901 building on the corner of J.M.N. Nkomo Street and Leopold Takawira Avenue, with Zimbabwean stone and wood sculpture, painting, basketry and Tonga artifacts. Its in-house Sabona Sales Shop sells work by local artists, from sculptures, drums and baskets to balancing birds and decorated wooden pens, alongside pieces from the DRC. store page → · open in the atlas → - Patrick Mavros Umwinsidale, Haslemere Lane / Online
Patrick Mavros is a maker in Harare known for one-of-a-kind silver necklaces, earrings and bracelets, worn by Kate Middleton and Bruce Springsteen. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Chapungu Sculpture Park Msasa, Harare
Founded in 1970 and laid out across a landscaped park at 1 Harrow Road in Msasa, Chapungu holds one of the world's largest collections of Zimbabwean stone sculpture and supports artists through exhibitions and residencies. Its gallery and online shop sell works in springstone, serpentine and opal by established and emerging Shona sculptors. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 5
- Edgars Harare Eastgate
South African chain founded 1929 by Morris and Eli Ross in Johannesburg, named after London's Swan & Edgar department store; expanded into Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in the late 1940s. store page → · open in the atlas → - First Floor Gallery Harare Harare
An artist-run gallery showing contemporary African art from spaces in Harare and Victoria Falls, First Floor represents painters including Wycliffe Mundopa, Gresham Nyaude and Troy Makaza. store page → · open in the atlas → - Gallery Delta 110 Livingstone Avenue, Harare
Established in 1975 and later housed in the 1894 former home of landscape painter Robert Paul on Livingstone Avenue, Gallery Delta ran a changing programme of Zimbabwean painting, graphics, ceramics and mixed-media sculpture. It exhibited and sold contemporary work while serving as a research resource for collectors and students of the country's art. The gallery closed in April 2022 after the deaths of founders Helen Lieros and Derek Huggins. store page → · open in the atlas → - Shona Sculpture Gallery 20 Airport Road, Harare
Run by Tim and Emma Haire on Harare's Airport Road, this gallery displays more than sixty large Shona sculptures across an outdoor garden and a covered Spanish-style verandah. Pieces in serpentine and springstone are sold on site and shipped worldwide, sourced directly from Zimbabwean sculptors. store page → · open in the atlas → - Stone Dynamics Gallery Victoria Falls / Zimbabwe / Online
Stone Dynamics Gallery has represented Zimbabwean stone sculptors from its Victoria Falls showroom since Stuart Danks founded it in 1986, curating hand-carved pieces in serpentine and opal stone from artists it has worked with for decades. The gallery ships completed sculptures internationally through its longtime FedEx partnership. store page → · open in the atlas →