Arthur Azevedo
Arthur studied to be a teacher at St Augustine College, Cape Town between 1950 and 1954. He later went to study philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Urban University ‘ de Propaganda Fide’ in Rome with the intention of studying to be a priest in 1956 and returned to Zimbabwe in 1962 after abandoning being a priest.
Arthur Azevedo is a Zimbabwean visual artist. He started his career in 1954 as a teacher when he returned to Zimbabwe from teacher training in South Africa. He taught at Louis Mountbatten School in Harare between 1954 and 1956.
From 1956 he was in Rome studying philosophy in order to become a priest. During this time he was involved in art mostly in painting. He returned to Rhodesia in 1962 having abandoned his intention to become a priest and took up teaching at St John’s School.
His interest in sculptor started in 1963 as a result of his dissatisfaction with painting, metal sculpturing soon became his dominant art medium to this day
