Rose Kirumira

Rose Kirumira
Born
Namubiru Rose Kirumira

(1962-10-28) October 28, 1962 (age 62)
Known forSculpture

Namubiru Rose Kirumira (born 28 October 1962).[1] is a Ugandan sculptor and senior lecturer at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA), Department of Visual Arts, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, at Makerere University.[2] She specializes in human form, sculpted wood, clay and concrete monumental sculptures. Her works include the statue King Ronald Mwenda Mutebi where she assisted[3] the sculptor and professor Francis Nnaggenda at Bulange Mengo,[3] and Family at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.[4]

Education

She undertook her undergraduate and graduate studies at Makerere University where she earned a PhD. Her dissertation was titled The Formation of Contemporary Visual Arts in Africa; Revisiting Residency Programmes.

Career

Research

Rose Kirumira in 2010 undertook a research project, Visual Art Skills and Activities Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda at Nkumba University.[5] She was also part of the research project/teachers manual Write a Story for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Makerere Institute of Social Research.[1] In 2005, she took part in the research project 8 Teachers Booklets: An Approach to Teaching Beginners of Reading and Writing at Lower Primary School in Uganda, a Makerere Institute of Social Research project for the Rockefeller Foundation.[1] 35 illustrated Children's Stories was also a 2005 research project for Makerere University/Rockefeller Foundation for 450 primary schools in Uganda that she was part of.[1] Rose Kirumira undertook A Model for an Indigenous Ceramic Ware Cottage Industry, a 2003 research project at the Margaret Trowell school of Industrial and Fine Arts, a Makerere University/Japan AICAD project.[1]

Notable exhibitions

  • Personalities (2010), Tulifanya Art Gallery in Kampala[6]
  • Different But One, (1996-2013) at Makerere Art Gallery[7]
  • Women on the Move and Artist of the Millennium (1995-2000), Makerere Art Gallery and Nommo Gallery[1]
  • Faces (1996), Tulifanya Art Gallery[1]
  • Rise with the Sun (1995), an exhibition of women and Africa, Winnipeg, Canada[1]

Notable collections

Rose Kirumira sculpted King Ronald Wenda Mutebi at the Buganda Parliament,[3] and the sculpture Family at Mulago Hospital Kampala in 1994. She sculpted Mother[8] at the UNDP headquarters.[1] She further created a sculpture The Page in Winnipeg, Canada in 1995,[1] Ambassador in the United States in 1999,[1] and Omumbejja, a sculpture in Denmark, between 1997 and 2010.[1] She sculpted Friendship in Changchun China in 2000.[9] In 1997 she made sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational Chapel in Kamuli District.[1]

Publications

Kirumira Namubiru authored a book chapter in An Artist's Notes on the Triangular Workshops.[10] She also authored Identity Gender and Representation: Reflecting on the Sculpture 'Mother Uganda.'[1] Her work Reconfiguring the Omweso Board Game: Performing Narratives of Buganda Material Culture was published in 2019.[11]

See also

Further reading

  • A Companion to Modern African Art. (2013). Germany: Wiley.
  • Döring, T. (2002). African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/sites of Creativity and Conflict. Netherlands: Rodopi.
  • Kasfir, S., & Förster, T. (Eds.). (2013). African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Indiana University Press. Retrieved December 5, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gh6fp
  • Sanyal, S. K. (January 1, 2002). Transgressing borders, shaping an art history: Rose Kirumira and Makerere's legacy. African Cultures, Visual Arts, and the Museum: Sights/sites of Creativity and Conflict, 133–159.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Staff Profile: Rose Kirumira Namubiru". College of Engineering Design, Art &Technology - Makerere University. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts - Staff Members". College of Engineering Design, Art & Technology - Makerere University. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Rose Kirumira - Associate Professor - Department of Fine Art
  3. ^ a b c "Kampala getting monumental look". The Observer. 9 July 2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  4. ^ Muwanguzi, Dominic (13 April 2014). "Uganda: sculptures that speak culture". The Independent. Retrieved 17 March 2020 – via allAfrica.
  5. ^ Mukasa, Josephine W.; Kirumira, Rose; Lubowa, Paul (2011). "Visual Art Skills, Materials and Activities: Towards Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda". Nkumba University. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2020 – via Scribd.
  6. ^ "Writers in Residence: Rose Kirumira - Exhibitions". Rhodes University. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. ^ Muwanguzi, Dominic (13 March 2017). "Arts: Different But One 21". The Independent. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Nudism or Beauty". Forbes Africa. 1 August 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Dr Rose Kirumira". RoseKirumira.net. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  10. ^ Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield; Kirumira, Namubiru Rose (2013). "An Artist's Notes on the Triangle Workshops, Zambia and South Africa". In Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield; Förster, Till (eds.). African Art and Agency in the Workshop. Indiana University Press. pp. 111–122. ISBN 9780253007490. JSTOR j.ctt16gh6fp.9. OCLC 783167542.
  11. ^ Kirumira, Rose Namubiru (2019). "Reconfiguring the Omweso Board Game: Performing Narratives of Buganda Material Culture". African Arts. 52 (2): 52–65. doi:10.1162/afar_a_00460. OCLC 8124827652.