Ancestors, Lilian Mary Nabulime, 1991, Wood, 150 x 100 x 80. Courtesy of Lilian Nabulime.
Virtual artist talk with Lilian Mary Nabulime & Martha Kazungu as discussant.
April 17, 2023
Online
Joined by Martha Kazungu as a discussant, Lilian Mary Nabulime will give a virtual artist talk in an event organised by SOAS and the Almas Foundation. Nabulime, despite being one of Uganda’s greatest women sculptors, is hardly known on a global scale. She is a Senior Lecturer at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art at Makerere University, principally teaching Sculpture.
She joined the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art in 1984 for her bachelor’s degree and later her master’s degree, which she completed in 1993. As a student at Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art, Nabulime was incredibly inspired by her professor, renowned artist Francis Nnaggenda.
Nabulime later joined Newcastle University in the UK for her PhD and graduated in 2007. She is famously known for her PhD project titled The Role of Sculptural Forms as a Communication Tool in Relation to the Lives and Experiences of Women with HIV/AIDS in Uganda (practice/ theory-based research in Fine Art.