What's first striking about his sculptures are the materials - the ingredients of the sculpture Lightning are 'serpentine, kudu, horn and oak' The Owl Gadget is made of driftwood and gazelle horn. Many are made of immensely heavy stones, or carefully carved wood. These natural materials summon up an African landscape whilst the forms themselves are elusive about exact meaning. Married into the mix are 'found' objects - hundreds of bottle caps, or bits of rusted metal and string.

Gutsa himself says "objects such as buffalo horns are used by medicine men to empower and strengthen the warrior before battle - in this sense the shaman creates an object that can acquire meaning and influence people, just as an AK47 or a bible can wield influence and power - I am therefore interested in creating 'gadgets of influence' - enigmatic forms that are intrinsically functional."

Opening the exhibition the curator spoke about the technical challenge of bringing such heavy works to the gallery whilst being irreverently teased by the artist - "if you make the right movement you can carry 1000 lb just on your finger" - an approach to the international circulation of art as shamanistic and practical as the works themselves.

In 1997, Gutsa opened the Surprise studio space in Zimbabwe bringing together younger and established artists to take Zimbabwean art in new directions. During the In Praise of Women showing, we learned that public sculptures in Harare had been destroyed in the unrest. It is something to know that - through Gutsa and others - the form is renewing itself as well.