About Phillip
Born in 1972 in what is now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, Phillip commutes between his homeland and the UK, taking on the challenges of raising the means to realise his dream of a Fine Arts degree in the UK. Phillip showed an early interest in stone sculpture and determined to make it his life’s work.  He turned to sculpture full-time in 1994 and works on the most demanding of stones including leopard rock, granite, serpentine and spring stone. As his ideas expanded beyond the typical Zimbabwean style, Phillip began to search abroad for new ideas and methods. He has never lacked imagination and has the grit and determination needed to get his wonderful sculptures out of Zimbabwe and into exhibitions and galleries around the world. Phillip’s work has been shown at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, the Chapungu Sculpture Park, the Similitude Gallery and others. The African Millennium Foundation over a number of years included Kotokwa’s pieces in their highly successful annual exhibition In Praise of Women at the OXO Gallery in London. His work is also in private collections in England, Germany, France, The United States, Norway, South Africa, Spain, The Netherlands, China, Korea, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Sweden and Denmark.
'His sculptures represent a dazzling array of ideas... He does things with stone which most of his peers do not think of, consider or attempt.'   - Celia Winter-Irving, Curator of The National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Making art... is a necessity for him to create; his whole spirit is in sculpting what cannot be told by words.'  - Toon Jakobs. Director, Galerie Tsant, The Netherlands
Exhibitions to date
2008 - The London Grip on-line art exhibition 2008 - Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey 2007 - The Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch, Berkshire 2007 - The Garden Gallery, Broughton, Hampshire 2006 - Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey 2005 - Guest Artist on tour with The African Millennium Foundation in           Sweden, Denmark, Canada					2004 - Group exhibitions in London, Germany and the USA 2003 - Guest Artist at Tsant Galerie, Nuth, The Netherlands 2002 - Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, SA 2001 - Group exhibitions in Germany, Netherlands and South Africa 2000 - Guest Artist, Kent
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