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The renaissance of contemporary art at Makerere University Art School
(2003-02)
This study examined whether the 1960’s in relation to the 1950’s and 1970’s were a decade of the renaissance of contemporary art production at Makerere University Art School. The study had three specific objectives:
(i.) To ...
A studio based exploration of metaphors in the art of drawing in Uganda
(2009-11)
This study explores the relationship between drawing and metaphors through studio practice in order to raise the artistic qualities in the art of drawing in Uganda. The study was initiated out of the researcher’s experience ...
Uganda's visual environment: development and change
(Triangle Arts Trust, 2002)
The article looks at the ways in which external factors were a necessary currency for the emergency of new local modernism in visual arts, and at the means by which local resources were used in development in a wider context ...
Katarikawe coming back home
(2009-03-02)
Pioneer Makerere Masters
(Mkuki na Nyota, 2008)
Uganda's visual environment: development and change
(Triangle Arts Trust, 2002)
The appropriation of external elements and their local domestication are important ingredients for the growth and survival of a distinct culture. Norbert Kaggwa, a student at the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art, Makerere ...
Art in Uganda in the 20th century
(University of London, 2003)
This study examines the major trends and transformations in Uganda’s modern art practice since its inception at Makerere in the 1930s by Margaret Trowell. In the early stages of its development, Trowell was driven by her ...
A New energy and fervour in Amanda's paintings
(2009-03-02)
Contemporary Ugandan art and the ctrique on corruption? A look at Mutebi's strategies, symbolisms and symbols.
(2009-05-28)
Some contemporary artists in Uganda have converted traditional objects and activities into a pointed vocabulary which they use to critique government and governance. Fred Kato Mutebi is active in this area. In this paper ...