| Qgocgae Cao (Sara) (1931 - ) | |
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Sara counts herself as one of the first in her generation who have worked and earned a living on one of the freehold farms in the Ghanzi District. Her parents still lived as hunter-gatherers. She recalls that she still dressed in her traditional skin clothes in those years.
Sara has seen many things change during her life and she now enjoys the way the women artists gather in the studio to talk and at the same time let their creativity run wild with the bright colours on the clean white canvasses.
She loves to depict the things that matters to her, like her San tradition and the world where she now lives.
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| Qhaqhoo Xare (1971 -) | |
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Qhaqhoo joined the Kuru Art Project as a young teenager in 1991 as one of the first artists of the project. Through the years he maintained a style with clear cut edges and clean flat spaces. His work reflects a simplicity that is peculiar to him. In his simplified animal and plant forms lies a resemblance to the rock art that was done centuries ago by his ancestors. His work has been received favorably and has been exhibited together with other Kuru Art worldwide. Qhaqhoo was invited to participate in the Intergrafia’94 World Award Winners Gallery, in Katowice, Poland and in Ronneby, Sweden. His work was also accepted for the MTG’94 (International Print Triennial) Krakow, Poland, Intergrafia ’94, Branska Bystrica, Slovakia and Print Triennial ’94, Consumenta’95 in Nuremberg, Germany. View Gallery |
| Ronny Khax'a 1980 - | |
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Ronny was born in 1980 at the Kuke settlement in Ghanzi District, Botswana. He attended the
Kuke Primary and Kuke Secondary School and later continued his education at the Technical
College in Maun, Botswana.
He joined the Kuru Art Project in 2012. Within his time at the art project he attended drawing,
painting and printmaking workshops. He enjoys exploring new techniques and loves working with bright colors.
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| Sobe Qaragae ( 1974 - ) | |
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Sobe worked for many years making sand candles with Kalahari Sandworks, a project producing crafts in D'Kar. He has a great talent for drawing and the intricate patterns he carved on the candles showed a creativity that could not be missed.
In 2018 Sobe wanted to expand his field and joined the Kuru Art Project as an artist, where he is now making his first lino cuts and oil paintings. View Gallery |
| Thamae Kaashe (1979 -) | |
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Thamae’s artistic career started when he joined the Kuru Art Project as an artist in 1990. Since then his work developed through different stages, from fantastic swirling compositions in his early years to colourful work with a lot of small detail, to art representing social and environmental issues such as the linocuts which won him the first prizes in Botswana’s National President’s competitions for 2013 and 2014.
He often paints extremely large canvasses but he also enjoys making lino prints, etchings and lithographs. The process of mono printing suits his specific style very well. Together with the Kuru art project Thama’s work had been exhibited worldwide. View Gallery |
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