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Original art from Zimbabwe across Africa and beyond

Art that never asked permission.

We represent the underrepresented. Our interests are simple: great art for you, and new collectors for the artists who make it.

Based in Dubai
Artists from Africa and beyond
Original works
Worldwide shipping
Delivered and hung in the UAE
Lease from six months

Dudu Mkhize as Queen Nandi, Shaka Zulu (1986).

Who we are

Nandi was a queen who never asked permission: the mother of Shaka Zulu, and a fierce leader in her own right. We carry her name because our artists share her nerve. They make bold work where there is no easy road for art, and too many barriers keep it from being seen in the places it deserves. We exist to change that.

Most of our work comes from Africa. We started in Zimbabwe, our founder’s home, and the collection now reaches from Zanzibar to Ubud in Indonesia. We spend time with our artists, watch them work and learn how they see the world. Then we hand-pick each piece for people who will love it as much as we do.

Some of our favourites.

Everything we represent is behind this page. These are the seven we would hang first.

Golden Grace by Prudence Chimutuwah

Golden GracePrudence Chimutuwah
Mixed media on canvas, 150 × 100 cm
AED 17,500

Look at the handbag: it is cut from banknotes, and the bench is newsprint. Prudence builds her women out of currency, magazines and sheet music.

Whispered Truths by Batsirai Muskwe

Whispered TruthsBatsirai Muskwe
Acrylic on canvas, 100 × 120 cm
AED 15,000

Batsirai paints the words straight into the surface, then buries them in layers of texture. Self-taught, raised in Harare.

Pensive and Loyal by Sky Salanje

Pensive and LoyalSky Salanje
Acrylic on canvas, 150 × 115 cm
AED 14,500

A man and his dog. Sky paints the half-urban, half-rural life most of Zimbabwe lives, from a remote corner of it.

Spirals of Reflection by Evans Mutenga

Spirals of ReflectionEvans Mutenga
Mixed media on board, 120 × 94 cm
AED 10,500

Etching, print and weaving in one piece. Evans paints the human figure and leaves the wildlife to the postcards.

Gallop of Light by A. Zipnapechka

Gallop of LightA. Zipnapechka
Oil on canvas, 85 × 130 cm
AED 13,000

Oil, painted in Ubud, Bali. The collection goes wherever the work is overlooked.

Mambokadzi by Prudence Chimutuwah

MambokadziPrudence Chimutuwah
Mixed media on canvas, 200 × 130 cm
AED 26,000In the artist’s studio

Two metres tall, and still in Prudence’s studio in Zimbabwe. The biggest work we represent.

Ocean’s Innocence by Calvin Chimutuwah

Ocean’s InnocenceCalvin Chimutuwah
Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 50 cm
AED 6,000

Calvin paints Harare’s children when they think no one is looking. At 70 by 50, a first painting you can live with.

Golden Grace by Prudence Chimutuwah

For your homeOwn something nobody else has.Every painting is one of a kind. In the UAE we bring a shortlist to your wall before you decide, then deliver and hang it.See the works

Gallop of Light by A. Zipnapechka

For your spaceGive your guests something to ask about.Hotels, restaurants, offices and the designers who dress them. Lease from six months, or buy outright.Talk to us

The artists

We spend time with our artists, watch them work and learn how they see the world.

Golden Grace by Prudence Chimutuwah

Prudence ChimutuwahCollages the push and pull of being a modern African woman, out of banknotes, magazines and sheet music.

Whispered Truths by Batsirai Muskwe

Batsirai MuskweA self-taught former stone carver who builds faces in layers of paint until the mask feels more alive than the face.

Pensive and Loyal by Sky Salanje

Sky SalanjePaints the controlled chaos of a life lived half in town, half in the village.

Spirals of Reflection by Evans Mutenga

Evans MutengaTurns down the wildlife and sunsets buyers expect from African art, and etches, prints and weaves the human figure instead.

Ocean’s Innocence by Calvin Chimutuwah

Calvin ChimutuwahPaints Harare’s children when they think no one is looking.

Rural Reverie by Tonely Ngwenya

Tonely NgwenyaBuilds his faces with a palette knife, ridge by ridge, the way a life builds a face.

All the artists

Batsirai Muskwe at work in his home studio, December 2024.

Evans Mutenga’s studio, a basement room with murals, December 2024.

Batsirai’s studio, and who comes to it.

Sky Salanje’s house: works on the wall, works on the floor.

Tawanda Gwedza’s studio.

CBD, an old government building in Zimbabwe turned cultural hub.

Outside Batsirai’s house.

Pop-ups and events

Shows, pop-ups and partnerships with places that want art on their walls. Leave your details and you hear about the next one first.

Get in touch.

A work you have seen, a wall you want to fill, or a space that needs something people will ask about. Mun answers himself.

mun@thehouseofnandi.com