Rose Kirumira | |
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Born | Namubiru Rose Kirumira October 28, 1962 |
Known for | Sculpture |
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]