thumb|Henry Munyaradzi working with serpentine stone from Tengenenge thumb|1973 carving of an eagle by Bernard Matemera Tengenenge is a community of artists and their families located in the Guruve District of Zimbabwe. It has achieved international recognition because of the large number of sculptors who have lived and worked there since 1966, including Fanizani Akuda, Bernard Matemera, Sylvester Mubayi, Henry Munyaradzi, and Bernard Takawira.
thumb|Henry Munyaradzi working with serpentine stone from Tengenenge thumb|1973 carving of an eagle by Bernard Matemera Tengenenge is a community of artists and their families located in the Guruve District of Zimbabwe. It has achieved international recognition because of the large number of sculptors who have lived and worked there since 1966, including Fanizani Akuda, Bernard Matemera, Sylvester Mubayi, Henry Munyaradzi, and Bernard Takawira.
==Establishment of the sculpture community== thumb|Tom Blomefield in 2012 The Tengenenge Sculpture Community was established by Tom Blomefield in 1966. He owned what had originally been a tobacco farm and chromium mine but found it was by then uneconomic, owing to the international sanctions against Rhodesia's white government led by Ian Smith, who had declared the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. Blomefield wrote that he sought an alternative source of income for his workforce, which materialised when the sculptor Crispen Chakanyuka visited and pointed out that the farm contained an outcrop of hard serpentine stone (part of the Great Dyke), which Blomfield obtained the rights to mine for use in sculpture. Appropriately, Tengenenge means The Beginning of the Beginning in the local Korekore dialect of the Shona language.
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