Many of the artists responsible view their work as a form of storytelling, and the stories they tell relate to the lives of their ancestors, hunting and gathering, but also their lives today, living with limited access to the land and its resources.
The exhibition, which runs until the end of September, will juxtapose black and white images of San people in Botswana during the 1930s from the museum’s collections, with the colourful images produced more recently at the Kuru Art Project.
This art workshop was inspired by the ancient tradition of San rock art found across southern Africa. Archaeological evidence has suggested that people in Botswana made beads from ostrich eggshell before our species, Homo sapiens, arrived in Europe, and the exhibition explores the connections between beadwork and painting as artistic practices.
