| After completing Makerere
University with a BA in Fine Art in 1990, Taga Nuwagaba
embarked on his career and has painted since using watercolour
and oil. His favourite subject has always been wildlife
and the human figure. He has a passion for culture and
the people he prefers for his subject are usually from
rural Uganda .
His choice of the Black Madonna and child as a continuous
theme in his career does not only show his concern for
the African woman but it is a depiction of the real
hardship she endures.He was inspired to become an artist
by his grandmother Kateta who was an accomplished artist
in her own right.
Taga has worked with many conservation and wildlife
groups in Uganda like the Jane Goodall Institute in
Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda Wildlife
Education Centre, Ecotrust, and African Wildlife Foundation.
His wildlife works of primates and moths have appeared
on Uganda stamps. Uganda Tourist Board commissioned
him to make a mural depicting thirty five Uganda 's
favourite bird species to represent Uganda in the International
bird-fairs abroad.
His work hangs in the prestigious Mweya Lodge, Queen
Elizabeth National Park Semliki Safari Lodge in Semliki
National Park, Emin Pasha Hotel, Nile Prestige Bank,
Rwenzori Finest coffee (Lugogo Mall),
State House-Entebbe, Citibank, Hima Cement Offices in
Kampala and many Residences in Uganda and abroad.
Taga lectured in art as a fulbright scholar at the
Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee–USA
as a Fullbright Scholar.
He is now a full time artist in Uganda working on the
preservation of Culture and Conservaion of Wildlife
throught art. He has a home Gallery on Gayaza Road ,
Kyanja and his studios are at Tagaframe on Kira Road
, Kamwokya.
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