Colleen Madamombe - God is in Heave

Unique piece, certificate of authenticity available. C olleen Madamombe (1964 - 2009) was a Zimbabwean sculptor who worked mainly in stone. Her work expresses themes of femininity, motherhood and tribal matriarchy. Colleen was best known for her depiction of women and their Shona culture. She illustrated many themes of womanhood: women at work, harvesting, watering or bearing children and giving birth. Her female figures quickly became a symbol of femininity in Zimbabwe and were adopted by the Zimbabwe International Film Festival as the trophy prize for all winning female participants. She won the "Best Female Artist of Zimbabwe" award three times. Colleen worked mainly in Springstone (a local type of hard serpentine rock commonly used by Zimbabwean sculptors). She used both rough and polished stone in her sculpture, often leaving parts of the stone's surface in its rough, oxidized form to add color to hair or clothing, while creating expressive faces, arms and hands in the fully polished black stone. Skirts were sometimes chiseled into a rough gray surface, while other clothing, such as a blouse, was stippled into a finer texture. The overall effect and subject matter were instantly recognizable.