Jumber Jikia

{{Short description|Sculptor from country of Georgia, born 1950}}

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Jumber Jikia ({{lang-ka|ჯუმბერ ჯიქია}}; b. 1950) is a sculptor from Georgia.

Jikia was born on 12 October 1950.{{cite web |title=ჯუმბერ ჯიქია (1950) |url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/en/00002033/ |website=Biographical Dictionary of Georgia |publisher=Government of Georgia |access-date=16 March 2018}} He studied at Tbilisi School of Art, and then Tbilisi State Academy of Arts,{{cite web |title=Artyści w kolekcji |url=http://www.rzezba-oronsko.pl/index.php?kolekcja_crp,38,102,jikia_jumber |publisher=Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku |access-date=15 March 2018 |language=pl}} where he was later a lecturer.{{cite web|title=Aswan International Sculpture Symposium|url=http://aiss.gov.eg/?q=artist-cv-e/8/127|website=aiss.gov.eg|access-date=15 March 2018}}

His public works in Tbilisi include a statue of Oliver and Marjory Wardrop,{{Coord |41.695987 |44.796938 |type:landmark |name=statue of Oliver and Marjory Wardrop}} unveiled on 18 October 2015,{{cite web|title=The monument to Oliver and Marjory Wardrops opened near the Parliament|url=http://www.parliament.ge/en/media/axali-ambebi/parlamenttan-oliver-da-mardjori-uordropebis-dzegli-gaixsna.page|website=Parliament of Georgia|access-date=15 March 2018}} during the Tbilisoba festival, in Tbilisi's Oliver Wardrop Square; and one of Václav Havel{{Coord|41.721748|44.745336 |type:landmark |name=statue of Václav Havel}} unveiled on 22 June 2017 by President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili and Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnicky.{{cite web |first1=Thea |last1=Morrison |title=Statue of Vaclav Havel Erected in Tbilisi |url=http://georgiatoday.ge/news/6874/Statue-of-Vaclav-Havel-Erected-in-Tbilisi |website=Georgia Today |access-date=15 March 2018 |archive-date=23 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623041709/http://georgiatoday.ge/news/6874/Statue-of-Vaclav-Havel-Erected-in-Tbilisi |url-status=dead }}

Two of his Horses of the Wind are in Rustavi.{{cite web|title=Horses of the Wind, Rustavi by Jumber Jikia to be sold ?|url=http://kaukasus.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/horsesrustawi-by-jumber-jikia-to-be.html|website=Kaukasus|access-date=15 March 2018}}

Outside Georgia, his works are on public display in Egypt (History Steps 2008), and Cappadocia, Turkey (History Steps 2009).{{cite web|title=Artists – Jikia Jumber|url=http://www.art.gov.ge/artists.php?lang=En&artist=753|website=Georgian Art Portal|publisher=Government of Georgia|access-date=15 March 2018|archive-date=17 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117152842/http://www.art.gov.ge/artists.php?lang=En&artist=753|url-status=dead}}

He also sculpted a 22m tall, 60 ton, colossal steel-framed copper statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk for the Assembly Hall at Artvin in Turkey.{{cite web|title=Dünyanın en büyük Atatürk heykeli Artvin'e yapılıyor|url=http://www.olay53.com/haber/dunyanin-en-buyuk-ataturk-heykeli-artvine-yapiliyor-38181.htm|website=Olay53|access-date=16 March 2018|language=tr|date=30 September 2011}}See talk page

Dying Centaur is in the collection of the Polish Sculpture Center.