Fifra
Born in 1971 at Mnene Hospital in Mberengwa,Zimbabwe.He grew up,was educated and has worked and lives in Bulawayo.Driven by passion for Visual Arts,he resigned from formal employment in 1998 where he found no challenge.A Self-trained Artist who has been practising fulltime since 2000.He got Weld Art training through work shops with Danisile Ncube, (one of Bulawayo's leading contemporary Sculptors)between 2000 and 2001.He has a wife and son.
He specialises in abstract and mixed media painting and his work discusses the political and socio-economic issues.He is inspired by what happens around him,the content he reads and the music he listens to-mostly Jazz,Hip hop,Reggae and Sooul.He believes in creating work that communicates to just beautiful work.
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Born in 1971 at Mnene Hospital in Mberengwa,Zimbabwe.He grew up,was educated and has worked and lives in Bulawayo.Driven by passion for Visual Arts,he resigned from formal employment in 1998 where he found no challenge.A Self-trained Artist who has been practising fulltime since 2000.He got Weld Art training through work shops with Danisile Ncube, (one of Bulawayo's leading contemporary Sculptors)between 2000 and 2001.He has a wife and son.
He specialises in abstract and mixed media painting and his work discusses the political and socio-economic issues.He is inspired by what happens around him,the content he reads and the music he listens to-mostly Jazz,Hip hop,Reggae and Sooul.He believes in creating work that communicates to just beautiful work.
- Nationality: ZIMBABWE
- Date of birth : 1971
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- Groups: Zimbabwean Contemporary Artists
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2006: Roasted Berry Exhibit,Roasted Berry coffee House,Suburbs -Bulawayo
a group exhibition that showcased all catergories of visual art,jewellery and crafts
2005: Images of Bulwayo,National gallery in Bualwayo
a group exhibition which show cased works that translated what happens around Bulawayo i.e the lifestyle,culture,politics,night life etc
2005: Isigodlo SaMakhosi, National Gallery in Bulawayo
2005: Lavender Bay-Jewelery Launch and Art Exhibition,Ascot Shoping Mall-Bulawayo
Jewelery launch and art exhibtion
2005: The Garden Exhibition,The Van der Horns Garden,Hillside-Bulawayo
An exhibition by Bulawayo's contemporary Artists complemented by Jazz Music by a local jazz Band,Bulawayo's best Cakes sale .25% off art sales was donated to an Orohanage Home,Isiah's Umuzi Wothando in Bulawayo.
2004: hotel Rio Art Exhibition,Hotel Rio,Riverside-Bulawayo
A four men show that show cased paintings only with a variety of themes and subjects.
2004: Sentiments,Nexus Coffee Shop-Bulawayo
an exhibition by selected Bulawayo's contemporary Artists that showcased works under the theme Sentiments
2003: Metal Spirit,National Gallery in Bulawayo
a group exhibition that showcasedworks from the Metal Spirit Workshop.the works were made from waste metal material in its original form without much alteration in terms of shape and form.Hence nearly all the works were abstract.Some the sculptures were erected at The Tower Block Gaderns down town.
2005: Khululeka (be Free), National Gallery in Bulawayo
a workshop that challenged artists to gather their courage to practise their freedom to express themselves through their works of art on social and political issues in a country like Zimbabwe where freedom to express is bound in Chains.
2002: How to Start a Business by Naumann Foundation,Amakhosi Cultural Centre-Bulawayo
this workshop aimed at imparting basic business ethics and skills of starting a business.It also encouraged Artists to take Art as business and thus conduct its transactions in accordance to business ethics.
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Born in 1971 at Mnene Hospital in Mberengwa,Zimbabwe.He grew up,was educated and has worked and lives in Bulawayo.Driven by passion for Visual Arts,he resigned from formal employment in 1998 where he found no challenge.A Self-trained Artist who has been practising fulltime since 2000.He got Weld Art training through work shops with Danisile Ncube, (one of Bulawayo's leading contemporary Sculptors)between 2000 and 2001.He has a wife and son.
He specialises in abstract and mixed media painting and his work discusses the political and socio-economic issues.He is inspired by what happens around him,the content he reads and the music he listens to-mostly Jazz,Hip hop,Reggae and Sooul.He believes in creating work that communicates to just beautiful work.
Best Sculpture - Visual Artists' Association of Bulawayo Annual Exhibit 2001
Metal scupture entitled "heavy laden" made out recycled material (old iron base,bicycle horns,bicycle fork and a metal ball)
Second Prize - Isigodlo SaMakhosi Exhibition 2005
a mixed painting entitled "such is life" with abstract images in a bus
Metal Spirit Workshop 2003 at The National Gallery in Bulawayo
recycling waste metal in its original form to construct a sensible sculpture with a good finish.
2009: Marechera Celebration-Trinty College,University of Oxford-UK
4 paintings on Visual translation of the late Dambudzo Marechera's writing and his life my way.
2008: Harare International Festival of the Arts 'Determi-nation' Exhibition
An exhibition which demanded works that discussed the things that determined the state of the nation.Into the Heat was the painting that i submitted for the exhibit and it discussed the escalation of problems Zimbabwe was getting into.
2008: Post Election 2008-The Event and Lessons Learned,Gallery Delta-Harare
'anticipation' a painting on canvas discussing the waiting of the populant for results which never got announed in good time. An exhibition on Zimbabwe's most controversial March 2008 Presidential Election since Independence in 1980.
2007-2000: Visual Artists' Association of Bulawayo (VAAB) Annuals,National Gallery in Bulawayo
Annual exhibitions for members only and invited artists
2009:National Galleriy in Bulawayo Residents Artists Sustainable Art Workshop
A workshop on use of sustainable materials as a way forward in the art industry
2006: Roasted Berry Exhibit,Roasted Berry Coffee House,Suburbs-Bulawayo
Group exhibition celebration individual thems /subject.It show cased paintings only