Edward Chiwawa was born in the Guruve region of Zimbabwe in 1935. He started chiseling in 1970 in Guruve, from where he conveyed his figures to The Artist Community Tengenenge to be shown and sold from that point. from there he became one of the first era master sculptors of Zimbabwe.
Knowing Henry Munyaradzi (his uncle) and working firmly together with him, he built up his own particular unmistakable style, where the human face is displayed extremely moderately with two concentric circles for eyes, eyebrows that are set apart by a solitary half-circle pointing upwards, and a solitary line for the mouth.
This physiognomy is recognised in his celebrated moon heads and sun heads – roundabout and easily adjusted stones with a face, either with no line at the circuit, portraying a moon or with a round line close to the edge; and after that, it is a sun head. The mix of these endless images of life and demise, night and day, with human articulations limited is Edward Chiwawa’s most splendid and unique commitment to the craft of the Master Sculptors of Zimbabwe.