African sculptor Professor Rose Kirumira

Dr. Kirumira is an internationally recognized and widely exhibited female sculptor. She has written several articles, participated in various national projects and has had single and joint exhibitions in
Uganda. She was part of the Triangle International Artists’ Networks both in Africa and
Europe. She started Ngoma Workshop, the first Triangle International Artist’s Workshop in Uganda, and has attended several artists’ workshops and residencies in Uganda, Zambia,
Kenya, Botswana, South Africa, Denmark, China and USA. She Chaired the first Kampala International Artists Festival 2012. She thus has extensive experience with artists’ works, activities and ‘work-shopping’ in
Africa.

My work interrogates the groundedness of cultural spaces
specifically material objects, personalities and narratives with problematic meanings due to displacement from their historical craftsmanship and performative
context. I explore the connections and relationships between objects, object making and issues of identity placement of a personal nature and, own lived experiences. The artwork for me then takes on a new responsibility, it becomes a tool for visual affirmation, roclamation and emancipation.

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