Joseph Muzondo (born 1953) is renowned as a sculptor in stone. His early training in drawing, painting and sculpture took place at the B.A.T. Workshops at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, but he has also trained in textile design in Tanzania and developed his drawing and printmaking skills during a period of study in Austria. His art education was interrupted by the war of Independence in Zimbabwe when he enlisted as a ‘freedom fighter’. His sculptures are figurative and often have a graphic two-dimensional quality, with a flattened angular manner designed to be viewed from the front rather than in the round. His graphic work reflects and informs his manner of working in stone, but also introduces a self-consciously ‘African’ aesthetic with elongated figures represented in the manner of traditional wooden figure sculptures, and with marks suggesting tribal and ceremonial scarification and body painting, but also the patterns on the ubiquitous ‘African’ wax-resist cloth and the woven textiles of the region.