The Kalahari can be divided into three types: regions of typical sand dunes in the south and the west, the mixed shrub, grassland and occasional Acacia woodland in the center, and the vast shallow depression in the north, some 6,500 square miles in extent, in which the Okavango River disappears, with out issue, in a maze of channels and swamps. Working for Herero cattle owners they inherit all sorts of left-over clothes, very welcome during the winter months of July and August when the night temperature in the desert goes below freezing. The first (acculturated) Bushmen we met were a scraggy lot. The bushy low vegetation that stretches all the way to the horizon is typical in that part of the Kalahari Desert. Note our well-laden LandRover in the left background. A field day for the author’s wife-photographer. Expelled from previous vast areas in eastern Africa by the Bantu’s southward thrust, confined by the expansion of European-held peripheral regions, the Bushmen, the last of the African hunter-gatherers, have managed to survive in small groups in an environment which must be at the limit of man’s adaptability. It is here, in this wasteland, objectionable to the Bantu, undesired by the white man, that the Bushmen live. Occupation of this narrow strip is not entirely due to easy access to the railway, although it certainly boosts business, but also to the fact that this part of the country has a far higher rainfall than the rest of Botswana, mostly waterless sand, shrub and stone. the railway from Cape Town in South Africa to Salisbury in Rhodesia, which runs parallel with its eastern border for several hundred miles. The bulk of Botswana’s population of around 600,000, however, inhabits a strip of rolling country on both sides of the “line,” i.e. The greatest part of the country is occupied by the Kalahari Desert, a desolate expanse but for the fringing areas in the north where they border the permanent waters of the Okavango inland delta inhabited by a population of 50,000 and their cattle.
Bushman rhinoceros drawing south africa series#
This is part of a series called “Meet The Tribes Of Africa” and ongoing.Except in relation to the surrounding countries of the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and South West Africa, the Republic of Botswana (ex Bechuanaland Protectorate) rarely makes the headlines. A computer generated art piece which is printed on gold aluminium. Museum of contemporary African Art - Zeitz Mocaaĭuring lockdown I started to paint again and created “Omo Boy”. The family of the victim saw the show and contacted me afterwards, thanking me to allow their daughters life and story to have meaning.
Bushman rhinoceros drawing south africa tv#
Funny enough, it made mainstream Tv and was aired on National television. “GUILTY” was hard hitting and questioned our values and the misuse of mainstream media. It was a look at how little people in society really care about human life vs the major news story that week which was about our cabinet Minister who was stuck in a lift and couldn’t do his morning radio show. I graduated with honours and soon after started my career in advertising which took me across the globe.Īn exhibition using screen printing, digital printing on to fabric depicting a horrific murder that happened in New Zealand. Here I studied typography, print making and computer graphics. Please follow me on Instagram or use the hashtag #luckyfridayartistĪttended the Wanganui School of design - the first computer graphic design program in the Southern Hemisphere.
I hope you enjoy the art you see and open for commissions. Africa is my home now and have embraced it.
Their names are so simple like “Precious, Lucky, Innocent, Beauty etc.” I chose Lucky Friday to represent my adopted Africanism. It’s more to do with the amazing people I have connected with in Africa.
You maybe asking why the name “Lucky Friday”? In my graphic design career graffiti art, Bauhaus School of design and deconstruction influenced my career and fortunate to have won numerous international design awards for my graphic design and global advertising campaigns. I’m inspired by Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Picasso, David Hockney & William Kentridge. I play in the world of limited edition fine art prints and Nfts. I’ve worked across the globe for some of the largest advertising agencies on the planet and now concentrating on my artistic talents. Learn more Lucky Friday Artist Lucky Friday is a graphic designer who originates from New Zealand and now residing in beautiful seaside town called Hermanus, just outside Cape Town.
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