Ugandan sculptor
Rose Kirumira |
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Born | Namubiru Rose Kirumira (1962-10-28) October 28, 1962 (age 61) |
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Known for | Sculpture |
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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,[4] and Family at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.[5]
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.[6] She was also part of the research project/teachers manual Write a Story for the Rockefeller Foundation and the Makerere Institute of Social Research.[7] 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.[7] 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.[7] 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.[7]
Notable exhibitions
- Personalities (2010), Tulifanya Art Gallery in Kampala[8]
- Different But One, (1996-2013) at Makerere Art Gallery[9]
- Women on the Move and Artist of the Millennium (1995-2000), Makerere Art Gallery and Nommo Gallery[10]
- Faces (1996), Tulifanya Art Gallery[11]
- Rise with the Sun (1995), an exhibition of women and Africa, Winnipeg, Canada[12]
Notable collections
Rose Kirumira sculpted King Ronald Wenda Mutebi at the Buganda Parliament,[13] and the sculpture Family at Mulago Hospital Kampala in 1994. She sculpted Mother[14] at the UNDP headquarters.[15] She further created a sculpture The Page in Winnipeg, Canada in 1995,[15] Ambassador in the United States in 1999[15] and Omumbejja, a sculpture in Denmark, between 1997 and 2010.[16] She sculpted Friendship in Changchun China in 2000.[17] In 1997 she made sculptures for the Don Bosco Vocational Chapel in Kamuli District.[15]
Publications
Kirumira Namubiru authored a book chapter in An Artist's Notes on the Triangular Workshops.[18] She also authored Identity Gender and Representation: Reflecting on the Sculpture 'Mother Uganda' .[7] Her work Reconfiguring the Omweso board game : performing narratives of Buganda material culture was published in 2019.[19]
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.
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