Artist of the moment………Stanford Derere

{ June 9, 2014 @ 2:01 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Stanford Derere is a wonderful artist from Zimbabwe renown for his sculptures of birds. Stanford Derere was born in Zimbabwe in 1956.

Derere got his artistic education at the BAT Workshop located at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

Here is a great interview with Stanford Derere, at the end he talks about his children and his family:

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I love the abstract shapes Derere creates by spreading the wings of his birds.

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