Cg'ose was born at Kalkfontein in the Ghanzi district in Botswana during the 1950's. Like all the Kalahari Bushmen artists, she has a deep love and longing for the Kalahari bush where she had grown up. To see Cg'ose is to see the Kalahari. She merges and fits into it like all the plants and animals around her. Together with her husband, Cg'ose lives an honest and simple life. They are both serious people who take pride in their traditions and the small herd of cattle in which they invest most of their money. They had only one child whom they have lost.
In 1997 British airways selected one of Cg'ose's paintings to decorate the tailfins of eight of their large airplanes. For Cg'ose this has been the peak of her career. She was very proud to have seen her painting on the planes, on the upholstery, on the tickets and even on the small packets of sugar which she received with her coffee.
In 1999 Cg'ose was selected to join three other Bushmen artists and four American Indian artists in a printmaking workshop at the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, U.S.A. Together they produced a series of prints around the theme of the trickster. For Cg'ose this was a great experience. Like most of the female artists at the Art project she likes to depict the daily work of the women such as the collecting of veldfood and its preparation. Animals such as dogs and donkeys often appear in her work. She likes to repeat the same patterns on her large canvasses. Plants and animal forms together with her well rounded human figures, symbolises for her, the beauty of the Kalahari after good rains. Through her art, Cg'ose would like us to remember the beauty of life in the Kalahari and like most of the Bushmen artists she gives no attention to the hardships, pain and difficult circumstances in which they live.
Hunting and Tracking
Black and white linocuts
Paintings above R15000
Bow and arrows
Bushmen myths
Flai Shipipa
Joao Dikuanga
Julietta Carimbwe
Manual Masseka