Jeannette Unite | Artwork


XLIIIrd AICA Congress, Dublin Castle (25th-31st October 2009) Photo: William Messer Jeannette Unite in a Guernica moment after a lot of serious art speak at the 60th Anniversary of the International Art Critics Conference at Dublin Castle. Stallion, a life-size cast of a dead horse by Daphne Wright. Visual Centre for Visual Art and George Bernard Shaw Theatre Centre,. Carlow, Ireland more>>	PAST EVENTS • SASOL New Signatures Regional Selection in Unite Studio Project Space in August 2010. more>> • NUKTA ART Pakistani Academic Journal editor Niilofur Farouk commissioned an article by Jeannette Unite on artists response to mining. more>> • In October 2009 Unite awarded a prize at the Tashkent Biennale in Uzbekhistan for the most unique use of materials, acknowledging her use of mining waste material in her art making. • Jeannette Unite was awarded a research grant to travel in Africa in 2009 while making a video on artists in Kenya, Tanzania, Bogomoyo, Zanzibar and Nigeria with sponsorship from AMA(Art Moves Africa) also funded by Ford Foundation, Prins Claus Foundation and Andy Warhol Foundation. more>> • Jeannette Unite's HEADGEAR was the inaugural exhibition at AngloGold Ashanti, Gold of Africa, Turbine Hall Gallery, Johannesburg 2009. The work was produced in response to research at the State Archives in Cape Town. more>>	The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, a group exhibition curated by Professor Michael Godby shown at the Iziko Michaelis Collection, Old Town House, until 11 September 2010. more>> Catalogue Available

Western Cape Archival Services Exhibition Location: The Old Goal, Cape Archives, 72 Roeland Street, Cape Town. Dates: 18 September - 31 October 2008 Jeannette Unite has delved into some of the 45 kilometers of records, stored in eight floors of Cape Archives strong rooms and other depositories and is working a series of headgear drawings. This exhibition is a consolidation of visual documentation from travels to mines and industrial areas around the country and a reinterpretation of historical imagery. Remembering the Future is an extension of Earthscars; A Visual Mining Exploration expanding the abstract visual possibilities through the surface mining engineering works and linking this with content that has relevance ecologically, economically, geologically, geographically, historically, socially and technologically. "I have always been attracted to alternative spaces and the exhibition opportunity came up through doing research at the archives for the Hot Earth mining exhibition in 2007. I want to enhance public awareness of the Archives through this exhibition drawn from archival resources." more>>	INNOVATIVE WOMEN 20 September 2009 - November 2009 Opened by Marilyn Martin Curated show by Bongi Bengu of 10 South African Women Artists www.timeslive.co.za/local/article332784.ece www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/south-african-minister-lesbian-exhibition

Turbine Hall, Johannesburg. 2009 Inaugural Exhibition at the Gold of Africa Museum Gallery at AngloGold Ashanti Headquarters more>>	Mining Indaba exhibition 2009 and 2010 at Cape Town Convention Centre Annual Mining Conference platform to meet and exchange with the industry. more>>

Department Science and Technology CSIR Buildings -Public Art Award for a Glass Wall that integrated science and art by melting and moulding detritus from Industry and mines. 2006 more>>	From Whence it Comes Visits to Copper Mines in Namaqualand yielded the raw material and recycled glass and industrial waste, electric cable, radiator foils, copper waste and lead and diamondiferous material that were molten and moulded to form this 28 piece Installation.