Contemporary San art
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Qgam Khãxá 17 Grandmother
Qgam was born in the late 1960s and grew up, like most of the artists from the Kuru Art project, on the farms in the Ghanzi district. He joined the Kuru Art project in 1997. Since then, he has produced beautiful canvasses in oil paint and had made very sensitive line etchings, lithographs and brightly coloured linoleum prints. Through his art, he portrays a deep knowledge of the animals, the ‘veld’ and the traditions of his people. He still has very vivid recollections of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in which he had grown up. Along with the other Kuru artists, his work has been exhibited worldwide. He attended the Thapong International Artists workshop in Botswana in 1999 and found it a very enriching experience. He enjoyed working with different artists but seems not to have been influenced by their styles, which differs widely from his own.