Jeannette Unite


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	ABOUT JEANNETTE UNITE Jeannette Unite is an independent visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. For the past decade she has been exploring Africa’s Industrial landscape. Unite gathers minerals, mine dump waste and site specific sands integral to her process of making her own pastels and paint. Glass artworks contain molten industrial waste and actual metalliferous and diamondiferous material from these travels so that artworks that portray landscape are made from the land itself. "Jeannette Unite, a story teller, thinker, archivist, environmental activist, political commentator, teacher and a cultural historian.....makes a unique contribution to the post colonial discourse through her particular use of materials that define locality."...........>>>>>.... ................................... ...................................... Raphael Chikukwa				EVENTS • BEIJING BIENNALE: Unite one of 4 SA artists participating from 20 Sept - Oct 2010. more>> PUBLICATIONS 2010 Critical Interventions - CI#5 www.aachron.com Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie" Headgears" Nukta Art - Exploring the Visual Residues of Colonial Exploitation ICACD Africa - Cultural Development Conference in Ghana West Africa addressing 50 years of Independence. Jeannette Unite presents "TERRA: Eco-Alchemy and the African Industrial landscape" www.icacdafrica.org more>> more>> • Art South Africa - Spring issue 2010 published the COLOUR COLLOQUIM hosted by Rhodes University in March 2010. Jeannette Unite presented "TERRA: Mining the Artists paintbox in the African Industrial Landscape. more>> STUDIO VISITS BY APPOINTMENT art@unite.co.za +27769069767 more>>

	TRAVEL RESEARCH>> A Travel Research Grant from Art Moves Africa has made it possible to visit mines, archaeological sites and meet artists and share pastel and paint recipes in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zambia, Botswana and Nigeria and West Africa. ......... .....Bogomoyo slave site Tanzania ...................Kenya Rift valley - greenhouse veges ............................................................................and cut flowers for Europe deplete ............................................................................finite water resources ........ .Carved west African Airoplane for lift off....Confiscated items at Nairobi airport .....more>>............. and even more>>>				RECENT>> TERRA: Above and Below 8 April 2010 - 23 May 2010 The Reservoir Oliewenhuis Art Museum A pertinent space for this mining exhibition as it takes the artist’s metal and mineral artwork back underground. The reservoir was constructed during the Anglo-Boer War. The mineral wealth beneath the landscape in the region compelled the British conflict with the Boers in a war that shaped the history and identity of South Africans. .... Above Below Installed at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Reservoir space, Bloemfontein