Ivan Allen Bwambale (Metallica)

I was born on 17th March 1988 in the central capital of Uganda, Kampala.

I studied a bachelor of industrial art and design at makerere university's Margaret trowel school of industrial and fine arts currently college of engineering, design, art and technology.

Graduated in 2011 and currently lecturing sculpture at the YMCA COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTE, Kampala branch and a practicing artist (sculptor and painter)

ARTIST STATEMENT

My sculptures address social and cultural issues, representing issues that arise in a society where i work at the moment. I use scrap metal mostly from car parts, motor cycles and bicycles and give them a new life. my sculptures are static but intriguing. Using studied lines, shapes and texture I strive to create vignettes of motion. Using wire and found metal, I bend, bolt, screw, cast, patina, grind and weld these objects together to make intriguing sculptures. I draw my inspiration from challenges of blending technical structures while maintaining the aesthetics. "I am inspired by subtle life experiences, as I work, my mind runs like a slide show of partial pictures, flashes of abstract images, I grab these images as they come to combine and
arrange then to make sculpture."