Rose Kirumira

Rose Kirumira
Born
Namubiru Rose Kirumira

(1962-10-28) October 28, 1962 (age 61)
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,[4] and Family at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.[5]

Education[edit]

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[edit]

Research[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

Further reading[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ "Rose Kirumira Namubiru". College of engineering design art and technology makerere university.
  2. ^ "MTSIFA staff members". College of engineering design art and technology makerere university.
  3. ^ Ltd, Observer Media (2008-07-09). "Kampala getting monumental look". The Observer - Uganda. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  4. ^ Observer media ltd (2008-07-09). "Kampala getting monumental look". The observer. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  5. ^ The independent Kampala (2014-04-13). "Uganda: sculptures that speak culture". All africa. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
  6. ^ "Enhancing Teaching How to Begin Reading and Writing of Early Childhood Education in Uganda". SCRIBD. 2011. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Kirumira Rose Namubiru". CEDAT.mak.ac.ug. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  8. ^ "Rose Kirumira. Exhibitions". Rhodes university. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  9. ^ Dominic, Muwanguzi (2017-03-13). "Different but one 21". The independent. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  10. ^ "Kirumira Rose Namubiru". College of engineering design art and technology. Makerere university. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  11. ^ "Publications/exhibitions". Dr Rose Kirumira. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  12. ^ "Kirumira Rose Namubiru". College of engineering design art and technology makerere university. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  13. ^ "Kampala getting monumental look". The observer. 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  14. ^ Forbes woman africa (2014-08-01). "Nudism or Beauty". Forbes africa. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  15. ^ a b c d "Kirumira Rose Namubiru". College of engineering design art and technology makerere university. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  16. ^ "Dr Rose Kirumira Namubiru". Rose Kirumira.net. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  17. ^ "Dr rose Kirumira". RoseKirumira.net. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  18. ^ Sidney, Littlefield kasfir (2013). African art and agency in the workshop. Bloomington, IN, united states: Indiana university press. ISBN 0253007410.
  19. ^ "Reconfiguring the Omweso board game : performing narratives of Buganda material culture / Rose Namubiru Kirumira". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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