Career
His sculptures, which are often life-size or larger, are part of prestigious collections across the world with some of his works such as his Fallen Warrior shown at the British Museum, still used as case studies for fine art students in Zimbabwe today. In 2014 his brass sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in Rustenburg. This and other works by this artist will be shown at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Somerset House in London in October 2015.
Adam Madebe participated in the 1989 Pachipamwe II Workshop held at Cyrene Mission outside Bulawayo, Zimbabwe alongside such luminaries as Joram Mariga, Bernard Matemera, Bill Ainslie, Voti Thebe, Sokari Douglas Camp and David Koloane.
He was then invited by the Triangle Arts Trust to attend their annual workshop in Pine Plains, New York State in 1990 and in 1995 attended an International Artists Workshop at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This male nude work generated significant local discussion about its suitability for public display in a somewhat conservative country and was summarily removed from the Gardens.
Later displayed within the internal Gallery courtyard of the magnificent fully renovated Douslin House, it again fell foul of local governmental censorship in 2010 and once again remains hidden with a storeroom.
