Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts (MTSIFA) Collections: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Katarikawe coming back home
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The integration of monumental sculpture in landscapes: a case study of selected Kampala and Entebbe landscapes
(2009-09-25)This study examines the integration of monumental sculpture with landscapes from a historical point of view of the Western world as well as the Ugandan situation. The study’s objectives are: To find out why monumental ... -
Meaning-making in visual culture: the case of integrating Ganda idigenous knowledge with contemporary art practice in Uganda
(2010)ABSTRACT It is apparent that in Buganda, art produced in the studio is detached from its community. This realization undermines the basic tenets of the indigenous systems of knowledge generation, acquisition, and practical ... -
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 ... -
Pioneer Makerere Masters
(Mkuki na Nyota, 2008) -
A New energy and fervour in Amanda's paintings
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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 ... -
Art as a social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda
(Sage, 2011-07)This article explores the possibilities of art as social practice in the context of the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is inspired by notions of art having the capacity to move beyond the spaces of galleries into an expanded ... -
Coloured sculpture: an analytical visual study of the use of colour in sculpture: a guide to a practical study of the use of colour in sculpture in Uganda with special reference to Makerere University School of Fine Art
(2013-07-05)The principle objective of this study is to find out whether the enhancement of sculpture content, could be achieved through practical study and use of colour and it's effects. In order to achieve the above, the researcher ... -
Art and Gender: Imag[in]ing the new woman in contemporary Ugandan art, Book 1
(University of South Africa, 2012-04)This thesis is based on the belief that representations of women in contemporary Ugandan art serve cultural and political purposes. The premise is that the autonomous woman (seen as the new woman in this study), emerging ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sculptural figures reflected on daily experiences: solo exhibition 24th June, 2011 till 21st August, 2011
(2011-06)The sculptures in the exhibition are mainly figurative wood carvings and fired ceramics clay representing the human form fashioned primarily in a stylized and abstracted approach. The sculptural figures represent daily ... -
A unique complexity
(Wits Art Galleries, 2004)Kakande follows up the raptures, shifting boarders and radical transformations in Venda pottery. He examines how Venda potters respond to the competitive market by prducing un convetional forms rendered with creative animal ... -
Art as a social practice: transforming lives using sculpture in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in Uganda
(SAGE Publications, 2010)This article explores the possibilities of art as social practice in the context of the fight against HIV/AIDS. It is inspired by notions of art having the capacity to move beyond the spaces of galleries into an expanded ...