Simon, Cgoma

Bobbie Burgers is a contemporary Canadian painter. Her lush and Expressionistic depictions of flowers teeter on the verge of abstraction, bursting with bright color and laden with thickly applied, textural paint. “Flowers, to me, are the opposite of still,” the artist has explained. “Changing from minute to minute, they are perfect symbols for life, death, yearning, and beauty. My brushstrokes are layered with my own internal charges, depicting anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.” Born in 1973 in Vancouver, Canada, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery. Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Simon, Cgoma

Cgoma was born in 1958 on a farm near Ghanzi. Her parents moved to D'Kar when she was a child. Cgoma still lives in D"Kar where she has tried all kinds of small jobs to sustain herself and her six children.

In 2001 she attended an embroidery workshop at Kuru and has since then produced several beautiful pieces of embroidery. She is very free when making her embroidery and starts on the cloth without much planning ahead. Although some other people also make embroideries in D'Kar, Cgoma's are unique as she is the only one using the age-old craft of ostrich eggshell beadwork in her embroideries.

In January 2005 Cgoma officially joined the Kuru Art Project. She loves painting and printmaking. Her natural sense of colour and design is obvious in the unusual colour combinations and attention to patterns and textures in her work. She finishes each piece to perfection and if not satisfied with the outcome, she repaints the canvas and starts again. 1

1. The Kuru Art Project