Boira Mteki was a Zimbabwean sculptor and educator, born in Harare in 1946. He was among the founding members of the Workshop School established by Frank McEwen at the Rhodes National Gallery (now the National Gallery of Zimbabwe) in the late 1950s. Although his career ran parallel to that of the artists at Tengenenge, his own working life was rooted at the National Gallery rather than in the rural sculpture community.
He was among the first of the Workshop School sculptors to abandon the soft soapstones and steatite then in common use, turning instead to the harder native stones — serpentinite, granite, limestone and springstone — whose resistance demanded a different approach and produced a more powerful surface. By example he encouraged peers including John and Bernard Takawira, Joseph Ndandarika and Nicholas Mukomberanwa to do the same.
He is best known for his monumental, sometimes confrontational heads, often leaving large areas of stone exposed and unworked while the features are placed and finished with deliberation. His work is held in the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and the Chapungu Sculpture Park, and has appeared in major exhibitions of Zimbabwean sculpture over the past half-century. He died in 1991.