Blind Head II Sculpture

“Born and raised in Mutundwe, a Kampala suburb, the third child of 10, my love for sculpting developed at an early age when I discovered that I could make figures out of the ant-hill soil in the home garden and that they would dry to a state of permanency when left out in the scalding sun. I did not follow this up for I loved drawing more and I used to fill up book after exercise book with drawings of the then popular film stars... The “ Rambos, Schwarzenegger, Jean claude - Van Damme, Bruce Lee” of that time. And because our education system does not emphasize sculpture in the early years of school, I was formally introduced to sculpture in 2003 after joining Michelangelo School of creative Arts for a diploma in art and design. It is there that I produced my first ever sculpture under the kind tutorship of Henry Mujuzi Kipemba. I graduated in June 2006 with a Kyambogo University Diploma but it was not until January 2009 that I applied for a three year Degree in Industrial and Fine arts at Makerere University, graduating on the 24th of January, 2013 with a First class honors degree . Working with several sculptors has exposed me to various techniques and given me a chance to develop my skills. I am a multi-medium, multi-style sculptor, whose work ranges from traditional figurative and portraiture to representational abstracts. targeting mainly social issues…… I love working with a variety of materials but with a stronger attachment to clay. This has mainly been so because I feel that clay provides me with various alternatives due to its flexibility. Thus it avails several outcomes both expected and unexpected. Each work challenges the viewer to ponder our shared journey. No two people experience anything exactly the same, and yet a perfect stranger can walk up to a piece of art and experience a connection. I always look at challenging myself to produce something new, work that I have never done before…. Work that will ask the viewer to “ stay a little longer “ ‘The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.’ George Bernard Shaw