Peter Oloya
Peter Oloya was born in war-torn Northern Uganda and abducted from his family aged eleven by the Lords Resistance Army. He was brutally forced into being a ‘boy soldier’ but managed to escape after being wounded in a bush battle. He chose art as a way to educate himself and to heal the emotional wounds such violence creates.
Carving curios and working as a DJ to pay first his school and later his university fees, Oloya graduated from Makerere University and is now a successful sculptor. He has participated in a number of residencies and workshops sponsored by the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation and his sculpture of a Crowned Crane was the gift of the Ugandan people to Her Majesty the Queen at the 2007 meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
