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CUT Students Stage Exceptional Exhibition

Tsitsi Ndabambi

 Three final year students from Chinhoyi University of Science and Technology (CUT), made their lecturers proud by exhibiting what qualifies as professional art and graphics exhibitions which attracted senior executives from various organizations where they were respectively attached as interns.

 Beven Rusere, Brandon Tinotenda Chingwaru and Tatenda Hillary Nhetekwa who were studying Bachelor of Science degree in visual communication and multimedia design for the past four years, despite the fact that they are still waiting for their final results clearly proved that their parents’ hard earned money which went towards their fees was not wasted.

 They three young men sorely held exhibitions in different spaces yesterday at Daisy’s Guest House in Greendale Harare. They all displayed a variety of art from photographic images, advertorial work, pencil and digital artwork, commercial graphic designs which they individually created using 3D graphics with some specifically for non-governmental organizations.

One photographic artwork that was eyecatching and at the same time pierced a person’s heart was an image of a battered woman whose arms were gripped by merged strong hands of a man. Emotionally describing the artwork Brandon Chingwaru said, “so basically the whole story behind that artwork which gets me emotional every time I talk or think about it is that I had a friend who was experiencing gender based violence (GBV) to the extent that she thought of taking her life but rather she opened up to me and told me her situation which I managed to understand. Funny enough I had been given a task to try to illustrate the awareness to stop GBV at the same time my friend opened up to me. So this pushed me to try and think outside the box as I wanted to come up with something which really expresses how this is affecting people on daily basis. So I did this artwork with my friend in mind now work minded,  it’s crazy I know, only to find myself arriving to something which had greater impact socially in a way. So in short this was done emotionally rather than creatively.”

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Tatenda Nhetekwa’s virtual newsletter did not go unnoticed among his masterpieces. He explained why it was different from what society is used to.

“Over the years in primary & secondary schools we were given newsletters at the end of every term. The newsletters were black and white, dull and boring and were not aesthetically pleasing. Yes, we want to get straight to the point but at the same time lets have value for money for the fees we pay, lets include picture, sound and life in our school newsletters.

Growing up with a visually impaired father it was always my role to read our letters that came from the school to him because he wanted to be informed about what was going on at the school as he was a paying my tuition in full year after year. This was the norm for me, reading out to my dad because that is what I grew up doing. 

Fast forward to university, we were asked to specialize on a design project and the first thing that came to my mind was, “I want to design something that will help more people like my father.”  The virtual newsletter was born, with this newsletter my visually impaired Dad can listen to it and easily access it on his own with just a click of a button. The newsletter also has pictures to make it aesthetically pleasing and give it value for money so that parents also feel the value for the money they fork out year after year. We have to live in a world where everyone fits in that’s what I specialized what I call, changing the world.”

Speaking of natural talent which was enhanced at university describes the breathtaking beautiful framed photographic artwork and the mixture of pastel and paint paintings which were done by Beven Rusere who explained that he started doing art at five years of age. One of his life size images of a snail which looked like it was going to slowly crawl away from the huge oak wood frame and another one of an old wrecked boat which he said he captured the image while on holiday in Kariba will likely be a collector’s prized possession on their wall or gallery.

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Supporting the event was Dr Batsirai Chivhanga and Mr Andrew Madzivanzira who are senior lecturers at the university. In his speech Dr Chivhanga encouraged parents to support their children in their choice of career paths. The guest of honor Anna Matsika hailed praises at the three young men for displaying such a remarkable exhibition which clearly was evidence that they took their studies seriously.    

Published by Betha Tsitsi Masvingwa Ndabambi

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