Context (CMS Context)
Artist Biography given by the Kuru Development Trust. 'QMAO (Qgoma Ncokg'o). Qmao grew up on several farms in the Ghanzi district. He had a great love and knowledge of the birds, insects and animals of the Kalahari. He depicted them in a very personal way. His work has a sensitivity, which is very touching, and his method of painting was quite unlike that of the other artists.

Qmao was fascinated with the way his ancestors lived and drew them in a number of his lithographs, many of these being half animal, half human. He was beset with personal problems and was only able to show the world a glimpse of his artistic potential before he died mid-1995, aged about fifty.'
Taken from http://www.africaserver.nl/kuru/english/artists/qmao.htm

Event Date 12/2/2014
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Obtained from the Kuru Development Trust, Ghanzi, Botswana, November 2013.
Event Date 12/2/2014
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Lithograph by Qgoma Ncokg'o (Qomao), titled 'Ancestors, Bull and Water Insect', 1992, edition 22/40.
Event Date 12/2/2014
Author: maa