Limited Edition – Xaga Tcuixgao, ‘Man of the Rocks’

Xaga Tcuixgao is a quiet shy woman, who was born sometime in the late 1950s in the Ghanzi district of Botswana. During that time her people still lived as hunter-gatherers. She remembers the men returning from the veld with meat, bow and arrow sets over their shoulders. She loved going out into the wide Kalahari with her mother and the other women to gather tubers, berries and other veld food. Tcuixgao joined the Kuru Art Project in 1997. She enjoys painting in oils as well as making prints. The sensitive qualities of her etchings, together with the honesty of subject matter, make her work stand out. Tcuixgaos favourite subjects are the things she knows so well from childhood. The veldfood, birds and small creatures such as tortoises and beetles. Veldfood has become for her and the other women at the Kuru Art Project, the symbol of life. She works in a spontaneous and direct way from memory.

Xaga Tcuixgao travelled to look at rock art sites in the Mthethomusha Game Reserve. This image is a memory of the trip and depicts Conrad De Rosner who was the guide to the sites.

Xaga Tcuixgao, ‘Man of the Rocks’, 2005, eight colour handprinted lithograph on paper, 50x38cm, Edition of 40.

WARNING. Keep out of direct sunlight. Handle with extreme care as works on paper are easily creased, bent or torn. Store in a dry, climate controlled facility.

This work is couriered rolled in a protective tube or flat on a protective backing board. Frame with non-acidic archival materials.