Pre-Corona Life Captured By Rosemary Karuga
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Notes : Rosemary Karuga was the first female student at the School of Fine Art of the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. After graduation she did not succeed in pursuing an artistic career, moved back to Kenya and became a full-time teacher. The last show she participated in was a large East African exhibition in New York in 1966, afterwards Karuga stopped being active as a professional artist until she reached the age of 60. While teaching children at school she became inspired by Byzantine art, especially mosaics. The materials were too expensive and hard to get thus Karuga began to make collages from paper scraps - newspapers, magazines, candy wrappers and other packaging materials. Her works, regardless of technique, depict the environment she grew up in - people, animals, landscapes, and are characterised by evocative and expressive palette, which reminds of the colourful magazines she used to make her art with in the past. In the 90s Karuga's art was displayed in Harlem, New York. Soon after, she became a highly esteemed and respected artist in the Kenyan art scene, with an increasing international reputation.
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