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Art Africa Gallery

Art Africa Gallery is one of the renowned Zimbabwean gallery that collects shona art around artists in rural and urban Zimbabwe as well as hosting artists for workshops. The gallery is an outcrop of the famous Matombo Gallery which has faced liquidation back in 2008. The gallery has its permanent exhibition situated in Victoria falls. Since its foundation in 2008 it has shifted to focus on imaging artists through the campaign ,Discovering hidden artistic talents.

It is thorough this campaign that saw the likes of scabios,sango brothers,john chewa,chenjerai chiripanyanga ,askim,love bonjisi ,makore and bainos nyamhondoro came to lime light as leading shona artist.

Art Africa was founded by Dr Mayor Zvavanhu who has been working with the most prolific art curator to come to Zimbabwe the late Mr Roy Cook. It was under the guidance of Roy that Mayor got inspiration and upon liquidation he founded an art institute named art lovers before rebranding to Art Africa Gallery.