Rhode Makoumbou
Rhode Bath-Schéba Makoumbou (born 29 August 1976 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo) is an artist who works in oil painting and sculpture. She lives and creates in Brussels and Brazzaville.
She is the daughter of painter David Makoumbou and has made art since 1989. Her early oil paintings, made with a knife, mix distinctly African themes with influences from realism, expressionism and cubism. Since 2002 she has also created sculptures from sawdust and wood glue over a metal frame, often depicting dying rural African trades, with some pieces reaching up to 3 metres tall.
Makoumbou’s work has been shown in more than 230 exhibitions around the world. She won the 2012 Grand Prix of Arts and Letters of the President of the Republic of the Congo. In 2013 she was made an officer of the Ordre du Dévouement Congolais by President Denis Sassou Nguesso for her art and for promoting Congolese art abroad.
She has also explored hair-styling, creating traditional and modern styles for models at Brussels Ethno Tendance Fashion Week in 2017. She runs art workshops in Brussels and Brazzaville.
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