Size: 722 x 690 mm Price: BWP 2730 Code: DAP009		BLACK BIRDS WITH CHICKS Artist: COEX'AE QGAM (DADA) I do not see myself as just another artist. Being an artist is my heritage. It is part of my existence as being Ncoakhoe (San) is part of my existence." Born in 1934 in Ghanzi, Botswana, Dada is today the most well known of all the Kuru artists. She has been with the Kuru Art Project since its very beginning when she acted as a translator during the first art workshops. Fluent in five African languages as well as Afrikaans and a little English and her outgoing personality makes her well loved by most people. She is a born performer, a natural storyteller and great traditional dancer.
Size: 997 x 782 mm Price: BWP 3510 Code: CGP018		THREE BEADED BAGS AND BELTS Artist: CG'OSE NTCOXO Cg’ose was born at Kalkfontein in the Ghanzi district during the 1950’s. Like all the Kuru artists she has a deep love and longing for the Kalahari bush where she had grown up. To see Cg’ose is to see the Kalahari. She merges and fits into it like all the plants and animals around her. She had only one child, whom she lost in 1998. For Cg’ose the loss of her only daughter is a heavy burden and for almost a year she had not been very productive. It is remarkable that in the few pieces she did during this period, there is no trace of the pain and hardship she has gone through.
Size: 727 x 522 mm Price: BWP 1690 Code: NXP011		skin bags Artist: NCG'ABE TASE Ncg’abe laughs when she talks about her eight children, four boys and four girls. “They keep you busy when you are alone so that you do not feel the loneliness.” She was born on the farm Dxamga in the Ghanzi District during the early 1960’s. As a child she had a carefree life, playing around her grandmothers where they were busy with their daily tasks and making beadwork necklaces and aprons. Many times she and the other children went with the women to collect veldfood, learning a lot from her elders.
Size: 635 x 955 mm Price: BWP 1950		THREE MEN HUNTING Artist: X'ARE THAMA X’are was born during the late 1970’s on one of the farms in the Ghanzi District. His parents were farm labourers and X’are grew up with his grandparents. Through his childhood he stayed with different family members who traveled between the large freehold farms in the Ghanzi District. Due to this nomadic lifestyle X’are never went to school. Yet, X’are can speak three different San languages, some Setswana and some Afrikaans.
Size: 633 x 460 mm Price: BWP 1300		ELEPHANTS AND RHINO Artist: XGAOC'O X'ARE Xgaoc’o grew up as the playmate of Thamae Setshogo on a farm in the Ghanzi District. He did not know anything about art before he joined the art project at Kuru in 1992. At that time, he was only a young boy and the creative possibilities, which he was introduced to at the Kuru Art Project, revealed a new world to him. For Xgaoc’o. His art became a new reality where the images that dwell in his mind could materialize on canvas through careful brushstrokes in simplified forms and joyous colours.
Size: 529 x 503 mm Price: BWP 1430		woman resting at home Artist: X'AGA TCUIXGAO X’aga was born in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s in the Ghanzi District, Botswana, where her people lived as hunter-gatherers. As a child she loved to join her mother and the other women to gather tubers, berries and other veldfood in the wide Kalahari veld. The most delicious of all veldfoods were the Khuts’uu, (wild truffle) which they could find after the late rains. She also remembers times when the rain stayed away and the veldfood were scarce. Those were hard times that she would rather like to forget. Her most precious memories are the cosy fire circles and the many dances at night.

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