Khoi-San Paintings & Prints from Botswana

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Khoi-San Paintings & Prints from Botswana

We are always excited to discover a new (to us) group of artists. Such it was in the summer of 2006, when we first saw the work of Xhose Noxo (Cgoise), Qatcao Moses, Gamnqoa Kukama and other artists from the Khoi-San people of Botswana. Their visit to the US was sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which provided the following information:

The famous Khoi-San hunter-gatherers produced some of the world's most celebrated figurative art, the Bushman rock paintings. Their descendants live around the Kalahari Desert, a sparsely populated desert area that includes Botswana.

Successful efforts have been made to provide these folk artists with materials to produce paintings and woodblock prints depicting the hunter gatherer vision of the ancestral Khoi-San. With forceful imagery and composition, this figurative art yields astounding and beautiful results.

Last Updated:

July 23, 2023

Porcupine and Babies

SKU: GQO-1501

Gamnqoa Kukama

Botswana

Reduction linocut, #7/17, 2014
(7 7/8" h. x 11" w. image size on 12 3/4" x 15 3/4" sheet)

Gamnqoa (the heel or hock of a lion) found in his art a meaningful link to his past. It enlivens memories that would otherwise have been lost or dwell in his mind only. He grew up in a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and worked as farm labourer before his involvement in art. He started his career as an artist with the Kuru Art Project in 1997. He is well known for his oil paintings and linocuts of animals full of movement and flexibility. (Bio courtesy of Kuru Art Project).

$295

Porcupines - Linocut print

SKU: QHX-1501

Khoisan Artists, various

Botswana

Qhaghoo Xare (b. 1971)- Khoisan people, Ghanzi, Botswana
Reduction linocut, #6/20, 2007
(7 3/4" h. x 11 3/4" w. image size on 11 1/4" x 15" sheet)

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. (Bio courtesy of Kuru Art Project).

$195