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Rona Barugahare is an emerging artist, based in Brisbane and working primarily with oil paint. She has always loved bright colours, fuelled by her father’s African heritage and her teenage years spent in tropical Uganda. She has been painting and drawing throughout her life, but recently has focused on abstraction in order to emphasise on light, motion and colour. Rona seeks to employ bold colour contrasts and to create an abstract sense of motion and form, evoking the imagination with an emphasis on emotive painterly techniques and celebrating the natural form of the paint medium.

Awards

January 2017 - Special Merit - 'All Women' Light Space & Time Exhibition. September 2016 - Special Recognition - 'Seasons' Light Space and Time Exhibition. August 2016 – Special Merit, ‘Nature’ Light Space and Time Exhibition. June 2016 - Online Finalist - Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award March 2016 - Special Recognition - 'Abstracts' Light Space & Time Exhibition. January 2016 - Special Recognition - 'All Women' Light Space & Time Exhibition.

Exhibitions

Foot Square - Aspire Gallery - Brisbane, 2016 Art Attacks The Little Guy - Sydney, 2016 Heart of Annandale - Sydney, 2016 Sydney's Smallest Gallery - Sydney, 2016 Art Heist - Sydney, 2016 Canvas Bar - Sydney, 2016

Member of the National Association for the Visual Arts since January 2016.