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Sentences:
Visual Language
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Overburden
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TRAVELS IN AFRICA         www.artmovesafrica.org

RECENT TRAVEL AND RESEARCH ADVENTURE - AFRICA
Silk Road / Kenya / Tanzania/ Tashkent/ Ireland/ Lagos/ Nigeria ASIA Istanbul and Uzbekistan IRELAND Dublin, Cork, and Neolithic Sites  more >>

NEXT SEMINAR PRESENTATION COLOUR COLLOQUIM
Rhodes University
Department of Fine Art
27th and 28th of March 2010
Paper entitled TERRA Mining the Artists Paintbox in the African Industrial landscape by Jeannette Unit
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http://frontiercountry.blogspot.com/2010/03/terra-mining-artists-paintbox-from.html

OLIEWENHUIS RESERVOIR MUSEUM BLOEMFONTEIN
TERRA Above Below
Solo Exhibition from 8th April to 23 May
2010


INNOVATIVE WOMEN An exhibition curated by Bongi Bengu featuring 10 Contemporary Black Woman Artists.Exhibition moves from Constituton Hill to Unite Studio Cape Town.Opening at 151 Buitenkant Street at 4pm by Marilyn Martin on 20 September 2009
Exhibition runs until 3 November 2009


AMA TRAVEL GRANT
Thanks to Art Moves Africa for their generous sponsorship for the upcoming research to document mines and meet art practicioners and create exchange opportunities throughout Africa. Please assist with any mining and arts contacts.

TERRA A Visual Mining Exploration

A visual journey of artworks informed by documentation of the South African Inndustrial and Geological landcape and covers the decade of Unite's involvement in this project.


HEADGEAR
An exhibition of Mine Shaft winding gear exhibition launched at the State Archives. Unite's research began on mine sites and moved to archives and museums. "Remembering the Future" large scale mining drawings was installed at the historic Old Gaol, Western Cape Archives and Records Service in September 2008.

Turbine hall JHB http://www.miningweekly.com/article/anglogold-ashanti-celebrates-the-art-of-mining-2009-07-1

www.artthrob.co.za
artbio
Jeannette Unite
By Andrew Lamprecht

Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwane
Constitution Hill

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article338964.ece
http://news.za.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=152382300
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/south-african-minister-lesbian-exhibition
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-03-04-xingwana-but-is-it-art

 

AICA conference Dublin Castle
AICA -International Art Critics Organisation - 60th anniversary - Conference paper presented in Ireland at Dublin Castle on TERRA Mining, Eco-alchemy and the African Industrial Landscape by Jeannette Uniteanglo mining gold diamond
Headgears exhibition at Western Cape Archive,
Old Gaol, Roeland Street, Cape Town ...more>>
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AngloGold Ashanti HQ Turbine Hall Johannesburg
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Mining Indaba 09 Cape Town Conventon Centre

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PUBLIC ART COMPETITION
GLASS MINERAL HOT FUSED GLASS WALL

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Jeannette Unite Studio has been awarded a glass wall public art commission for the Department of Science and Technology in the new CSIR building in Pretoria - these samples of South African Minerals have been fused into hot molten glass and celebrate the mineral geological and economic history of Africa. ... more>>

SCULPTURE WATER FLOWING OVER SOUTH AFRICAN GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY
A passage of time represented through water flowing over hot fused glass discs that contain minerals and elements from specific geological sites in South Africa’s mineral history – for example the gold mines of Johannesburg, diamond gravel from the Kimberley Big Hole, sand from excavations along the West African Coast. The spiral structure in stainless steel supports glass forms. The water flows into a comtemplation pool ... more >>
Jeannette Unite
Jeannette Unite is a full time Professional Artist. She works with architects and designers on corporate and residential commissions both locally and internationally as well as producing work for her solo exhibitions.
Her work is represented in significant collections on four continents, including those of Clifford Chance, Swiss:re and Vodacom
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NATIONAL GALLERY, CAPE TOWN

The title for the exhibition, SENTENCES, originated in a Thupela workshop at the National Gallery in Cape Town. As artists work alongside each other, dialogue spontaneously develops - Jeannette was playing with collage and then sequencing separate collages, like frames in an animation strip. One of the international artists in the workshop, Chris Cozier, from Trinidad, recognized the calligraphic nature of the work - "like a handwriting out of focus"
Jeannette Unite lectured specialist art subjects for over a decade at various art institutions. More recently she has focussed on community and corporate workshops
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THE HELSINKI PROJECT
December 2001/January 2002

'South Africa Today' exhibition opened by Cherylo Carolus and South African Ambassador in Finland, Franki Verwey.

The animation for the 2002 New Year Concert was performed in conjunction with the Sibelius Academy for The Concert was attended by 3500 people. The art film Jeannette Unite and Koeka Stander created was projected onto a three storey high screen behind the orchestra
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FORDSBURG ARTISTS STUDIOS
Minnaar Street Johannesburg
At the studio function in which Patricia addressed the group on the importance of culture in society and how this could be possible through educationAlan Horwitz, Patricia De Lille, Orlie Horwitz and JU ... more >>