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Jeannette Unite (born 20 January 1964) is a South African artist who has mined for her paint box by collecting oxides, metal salts and residues from mines, heritage and industrial sites, to develop paint, pastel and glass recipes for her large scale artworks that reflect on the mining and the industrial sites where human's contemporary world is manufactured.

Her industrial scale mining Headgear drawings and "TERRA was exhibited at Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany[1] in the reconstructed building on the site of mining headquarters for the Ruhr Valley to commemorate the final year of underground coal mining in Germany.

Through 2014 and 2015 her research on Earth's stratigraphy with Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University and Oxford University Museum developed into a body of work exhibited at CCANW, Exeter University, Devon between October 2015 and February 2016.

'''Research ''' Unite's works reference mining heritage sourced from archives and museums. This includes early geological historical maps and texts that were created during the British Industrial Revolution to guide mining the coal that fueled the engines that drove modernity.

The 1815 geological map by William 'STRATA' Smith map in the Geological Society foyer in Burlington House, London. Struck by the accuracy of Smith's subterranean knowledge and to commemorate the 200 year map, Unite embarked on a geological journey of  more than 10,000 miles. This was guided extensively by Owen Green, William Smith specialist from Department of Earth Science, University of Oxford,  and the printouts of the cross sections and geological columns from William 'STRATA" Smith Archive in the Oxford University Museum. Using a copy of the 1815 map and an iGeology[2] app Unite collected samples from the stratigraphy of the sands, clays, Fuller's Earth, chalk from the cliffs of Dover, coal from Wales and the Royal Forest of Dean and coal samples from the Ruhr Valley in Germany to incorporate into an extended mineral strata, polyptych paneled, "Geo-Seam" painting .William "Strata" Smith's identified the coal 'measures' in his Geological Map of England and Wales (1815), known as The Map that Changed the World[3].

the Colonial explorations and appropriation of minerals in the Scramble for Africa[4]. compelledEuropeans in the 1800s realized that their mineral resources were finite which The ways this Colonial impulse [5] has shaped the power structures of the global capitalist systems is interrogated in her exhibition, Paradox of Plenty, in response to the imbalances in the Resource Curse[6] that beleaguers her continent.

Jeannette Unite traveled through more than thirty countries accumulating an extensive personal archive of images and materials from the mining industry. The photographs from these travels and images duplicated from mining museums and archives, are as precious a resource to Unite as the site-specific sands and slimes pond tailings from the mines and industrial detritus soiled with history, and loaded with meaning that she mixes into her paints and pastels.

These mining artworks are made from the very mined material they interrogate so the material is thus both subject and object Unite explores the impact and relations between power and Earth through the mechanisms, both technical and social, of our modern world that are so inextricably linked to mining.

All wealth is derived from the Earth and laws and legislation are constructed to regulate who has access and ownership of the resources from the planet. Images of the industrial sublime critiques the force of human compulsion for material goods regardless of the environmental and social consequences.

Exhibitions 

Jeannette Unite has exhibited in Germany, Beijing, Lyon and Tashkent Biennials and Art Museums internationally.

1981 Young Artist’s Exhibition, 1st Prize, Kellogg’s Foundation (catalogue)

1990 Critics’ Choice, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town

1992 Art Now, AVA Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town

1993 South Africa in Black and White, Print exhibition, South African National Gallery

1994 Print Triennial, Muse d’Art Contemporain Internationale, Lyon, France

1999 Thresholds, Irma Stern Museum Gallery, University of Cape Town.(solo)

1999 Inaugural Exhibition, National Library of South Africa, Cape Town

1999 SoftServe, Public Eye Event, South African National Gallery, Cape Town

1999 Thupela Workshop, South African National Gallery Annex, Cape Town

2000 Sentences, art animation film, 8 minutes, edited by Koeka Stander, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.(Solo)

2000 Artichoke, Multimedia Event, Sandton Civic Centre, Johannesburg

2001 SA Today, Messukuskus Centre, Helsinki

2001 Blue Danube, animated projection, edited by Koeka Stander, concert Sibelius Orchestra, Helsinki, Finland

2001 Sentences, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town.(Solo)

2003 S.U.M., Bag Factory Residency Exhibition, Fordsburg Art Studios, Johannesburg (catalogue).

2004 Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, William Humphreys Art Museum, Kimberley. (Solo)

2004 Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, Mozambique National Gallery, Maputo.(Solo)

2004 Earthscars: A Visual Mining Exploration, Irma Stern Museum Gallery, University of Cape Town.(Solo)

2005 Gunfree South Africa, Constitution Hill Auction, Johannesburg

2006 HERM: Boundaries Between Wild & Cultivated, collaboration Cumbria Institute Arts, Ann Bryant, East London

2007 Earthscars, Anne Bryant Art Museum, East London, (Solo)

2007 Hot Earth, Artworks in response to travels to copper mines of Namaqualand. Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg (Solo)

2007 Visions of Africa, (curator by Dirk Oegema) Pretoria Art Museum (Solo)

2008  Remembering the Future, Western Cape Archives & Records Services, Old Gaol Building, Roeland Street, Cape Town. (Solo)

2008 Re-structuring the Colonial, Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg (Solo)

2009 Headgear, inaugural exhibition Annex Gallery AngloGold HQ, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg (Solo)

2009 Headgear, 9th Tashkent Biennial, Uzbekistan

2009 Earthscars: Mining African Landscape, XLIIIrd AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Congress, The Relations between Art and Science: Complicity, Criticality, Knowledge, Dublin Castle, Ireland

2010 TERRA: Above Below, Oliewenhuis Museum, Bloemfontein.(Solo) (catalogue)

2010 6 Meters Under, 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China.(catalogue)

2010 The Lie of the Land: Representations of the South African Landscape, curator Michael Godby, Michaelis Collection, Old Town House, Iziko Museums, Cape Town (catalogue)

2011 Paradox of Plenty, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town. Installation of mining image archive. (solo)

2011 Lizkhwepha Zhetu / Shaping our Minds, Durban Art Gallery

2011 3 Parts: More Harmony, South African, United Arab Emirates & Mozambique artists, Durban Art Gallery.

2011 Alumni Exhibition & Auction, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (catalogue)

2012 Paradox of Plenty, North West University Gallery. (Solo)

2012 Residuum: Mines & Machines, Western Cape Archives & Record Services, Old Gaol, Roeland St, Cape Town. (Solo)

2012 HAWK I Group Art Intervention, Overberg, Western Cape

2013 TERRA, UNISA (University of South Africa) Art Gallery, Pretoria. (Solo)

2013 HAWK II Guerrilla Video Projections on contested land and group Art Intervention, Overstrand, Western Cape

2014 EXTRACT, Youngblood Foundation Gallery, Cape Town.(Solo)

2014 COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town. (Solo)

2015 Preview Bi-Centenary William ‘Strata’ Smith, Jo’burg Art Fair Fringe, Johannesburg.

2015 Bi-Centenary William ‘Strata’ Smith, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, (CCANW) Innovation Centre, University of Exeter, Devon, UK (Solo)

2015 LAW & ORE, Youngblood Foundation Gallery, Cape Town.(Solo)

2015 Between Democracies, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg

2016 TERRA Museum Am Ostwall. Dortmund, Germany (Solo)

2016 Mining Our Heritage | Bergbau Unser Erbe – Hermanus Fynarts (Solo)

2016 35th International Geology Congress, Invited Earth mining artist, CTICC

References

Bibliography

1981 Barnes, M., ‘Kellogg’s Young Artist Award’ Sunday Times, 18 October

1990 Emslie, A., ‘Angry Artist puts Violence on Walls’ Cape Times, 9 April

1990 Benita, M., ‘Female nudes lost in paint’, The Argus, 2 May.

1990 Kramer, N., ‘Artist work strong, thick & gestural’, The Argus. 23 March.

1992 Munitz, B., ‘Bushmen Art’, Cape Times, October.

1994 Vosloo. E., ‘Jeannette Unites Vibrant Energy with her Artwork’, Sunday Times, 22 May.

2001 Jolly, L., ‘Music brings paintings to life’,Cape Argus. 17 April

2001 Meylan. R., ‘SA Art in Finland’, Weekend Argus.15 Dec.

2001 Verkkola, T., ‘Kaukainen Etela-Afrikka onkin hyvin laheinen’ Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki. Dec.

2001 Goniwe, T., ‘Fragile Firedancer Flower.’ Design Indaba Magazine, December

2001 Edmunds, P., ‘Jeannette Unite at Bell-Roberts Contemporary’. (Online) www.artthrob.co.za/01apr/reviews.html (Accessed: 6 May, 2008)

2001 Emslie, A., Jeannette Unite: Sentences. (Catalogue) Cape Town: Bell-Roberts Contemporary

2002  Riitta-Eiilisa, L., ‘Straussin musiikki juhlistiuuden vuodenpaivaa Helsingissa Finland’ Helsingin Sanomat. Jan.

2003 S.U.M residency exhibition, Bag Factory, Studios (catalogue)

2004 Minnaar, M., ‘Energy, Emotion and Eco-Morality’, Cape Times.: Independent Newspapers 25 February.

2004 Roper, C., ‘Art Pick of the Week’ in Mail & Guardian. 20-26 Feb.

2004 Smith, K., ‘Art Pick of the Week’, Mail & Guardian.10-16 ec.

2005 Smith, K., ‘Art of 2 Cities’’ Art News. London, 2nd quarter

2007 Lamprecht, B., ‘Hot Earth’, Die Beeld. Oct.

2008 Davenport, J., ‘One-person Cape Town Exhibition Explores Aesthetic Appeal of Mining’. Mining Weekly, Oct.

2008 Keylock, M., ‘Mining the Past’, Mail & Gaurdian. Sept.

2008 Bryant, J. Archive exhibit. Design Ways Magazine. 2 Sept.

2008 Wilkinson, V.,’Africa’s Heritage True Grit’Weekend Argus September 21

2009 Lange. J., ‘Mined over Matter’. Design Magazine Creative Economy

2009 Lambrecht, B.,’Die Mens en Sy Opgewing’. De Kat. Sept.

2009 Knox, B., Headgear: an Exhibition by Jeannette Unite, Look Away, Johannesburg. Issue 13 Quarter 4: 24

2009 Prinsloo, L., ‘Gold-Mining Major Hosts Mining-Themed Exhibition’, Engineering News Magazine. 10 July

2009 Lamprecht, A. Artist Bio Artthrob http://www.artthrob.co.za/Artbio/Jeanette-Unite-by-Andrew-Lamprecht.aspx

2010 Thurman, C., ‘Mines, Headgear & the Mind’. 18 February

2010 Earthscars, ‘Above Below’, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein.(catalogue)

2010 Godby, M., ‘The Lie of the Land’ (catalogue) Michaelis Collection, IZIKO Museum

2010 Beijing Biennial, Chinese Artists Association.(catalogue)

2011 Bell, S., ‘Resourceful Artist Digs Deep’, Cape Times, March

2011 Van Bosch, C., ‘Vlook Myne’ Die Burger. March

2012 Thurman, Chris., Subterranean surface, Business Day, 22 November

2012 Powell, Ivor, ‘Mines, Machines and Residual Power’, Cape Times, 3 August

2012 MacKenny, Virginia, Land Matters, Art South Africa Journal page 25, Vol11 issue 4. 5 December.[1]

2012 Martin, Wendyl, ‘Mining Artists Digs Deep for Material’. The Good Weekend, Weekend Argus, Sunday. July 15

2012 Adams, Steve, ‘Book Review: TERRA’. Amandla, September Issue no. 26/27. Unite’s artwork used for special Marikana issue, along with photographer Margaret Bourke-White.

2013 HERE/THERE WITS UCT Masters Exhibition (Catalogue)

2013 Headgear used for cover image for the seminal mining history book Digging Deep by Jade Davenport

2014 Jolly, Lucinda, ‘Paradoxical Beauty of Toxic Minerals’. Cape Times, July 24 review

2014 DeKATV, Gerald Scholtz Interview for Arts feature, October

2014 New Contrast, South African Literary Journal Volume 42, No. 3.

2014 Daehnke, Nadja, ‘South Africa: 10x12’ Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection

2014 Top Billing Episode featuring Unite’s work, 3 September

2014 ‘Pringle Bay Dream Drowns in Red Tape’, Noseweek, Issue 176, June.

2014 Collison, Carl, ‘An Artist’s Quest for Creative Gold’. Atlantic Sun, July 17

2015 M & G, Artists Who Drill Beneath the Obvious

2015 Business Day  - "Wanted" profile feature

2015 Aupias, Les, ‘An Alchemist’s Eye’. Private Edition, issue 27 April

2015 CCTV, China Central TV, Episode featuring Unite’s work, February

2015 Kolver, Leandi. ‘Artist advocates for art representation at Indaba’. Mining Weekly, 6 March

Publications and Texts

2016      COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES: Editor Ivor Powell 400 page. Monograph on artwork by Jeannette Unite investigating how Wealth from land and Earth is divided, measured and allocated and global cycles of extraction, consumption and waste.

2012     TERRA; Edited by Andrew Lamprecht and Ivor Powell with contributions by Ashraf Jamal, Kathryn Smith, Marian Tredoux and Bongani Ndodana-Breen. 192 page monograph surveying twenty years of Unite’s practice and research.

2010     ‘Headgear: Mining Engineering Drawings’, Critical Interventions[7], USA 6: 91-101, Spring 2010.

2010     ‘TERRA: Sands and Detritus Soiled with History’, Art South Africa, 9(1):  98-9, Spring 2010.

2010     ‘Exploring the Visual Residues of Colonial Exploitation’, Nukta Art: Contemporary Art Magazine of Pakistan. 5 (1): 80-85.

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2016 Mzansi Golden Economy Grant, SA Department Arts and Culture (funding for TERRA in Dortmund, Germany and COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES, CCANW, Exeter University, Devon)

2013 MacIver Scholarship, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.

2013 Twamley Postgraduate Bursary, University of Cape Town.

2012 Jules Kramer Travel Award, University of Cape Town.

2012 Academic Bursary from Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town

2012 CCA (Center for Curating the Archive), University of Cape Town.

2011 Fellowship Artist-in-Residency, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town

2011 AEGIS - African Travel Grant for African resource conference closing presentation, University Autonoma, Madrid Spain

2009 Art Moves Africa (AMA) Research Grant for Travel in Africa

2009 Tashkent Biennial (merit award for original use of natural materials)

2006 CSIR, Awarded Public Art Competition /Glass Wall Installation, Department Science and Technology Buildings, Pretoria

2003 Bag Factory, Fordsburg Artists’ Studios (Triangle Network) Johannesburg

2003 Constitution Hill (Glass & Steel Water History Sculpture) Finalist

2000  Thupela Workshop, South African National Gallery Annex.

1999  Thupela Workshop, South African National Gallery Annex.

1981 Kellogg’s Young Artists Award, First Prize National Art Competition. Prize: (Four year all-inclusive international art scholarship.)

Conference Presentations

2009 Mining the Artists Paintbox from the African Industrial Landscape: AICA (Art Critics International Association), Art & Science Conference, Dublin, Ireland.

2009 The Colonial Gaze Scientific conference, Urban Philosophy: Anthropological Landscape’, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2009 Mining Indaba. Art Exhibition Intervention. Cape Town Convention Centre CTICC

2009 Earthscars: Mining the African Landscape, Presentation AngloGold Ashanti, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg

2009 Earthscars, 20:20 Presentation at VANSA, Spin Street, Cape Town

2010 Mining Indaba. Art Exhibition Intervention. Cape Town Convention Centre (CTICC)

2010 Mining the Artists Palette in Africa’s Industrial Landscape: Presentation, Colour Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown

2010 Mineral Resources and Residues of Power in the African Industrial Landscape, Presentation at ICACD (3rd International Conference African Cultural Development) Cultural Imperatives for Development: 50 Years Post Independent Africa, Kumasi, Ghana

2010 Mining Indaba. Art Exhibition Intervention interpreting the mining industry. Cape Town Convention Centre.

2011 Mining the African Industrial Landscape: Conference Presentation at Conflicts & Natural Resources: African Studies, AEGIS Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

2011 Artists Visual Response to the Industrial Landscape: Conference Presentation On the Surface: The Heritage of Mines and Mining; University Innsbruck, Austria

2012 Artists Who Mine the Landscape 9th IMHC (International Mining History Conference), Johannesburg

Collections

Anglo America Kumba, Johannesburg

Bell Dewars Incorporated, Johannesburg

Chevron Headquarters Canal Walk, Cape Town

Clifford Chance, Brussels, Belgium and Frankfurt

Department of Science and Technology, CSIR Building, Pretoria (Public Art Award)

Development Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg

DEVS, Cape Town

Fairbridges, Cape Town, Johannesburg.

Goldstone Resources, Cape Town

Group 5 Engineering, Johannesburg.

Iso-leisure, Johannesburg

Isqithi HQ, Johannesburg

Liberty Holdings, Cape Town & Umhlanga, Kwazulu

Louis Karol Architects, Johannesburg Office

MTN Art Collection, Johannesburg

Old Mutual Place, London

Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein

Pezula, Knysna

Swiss:Re, Johannesburg

Chemical Engineering Building, University of Cape Town; Works of Art Collection.

TRONOX HQ, Johannesburg

Vodacom Art Collection, Cape Town

William Humphries Art Museum, Kimberley

References'''

External Links'''

http://www.mining.com/web/earth-artist-explores-geologic-deep-time/

http://www.lokalkompass.de/dortmund-city/kultur/kunst-von-jeanette-unite-im-alten-museum-am-ostwall-baukunstarchiv-nrw-d638169.html

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https://www.academia.edu/3684463/Land_Matters_-_a_Visual_Exploration_of_Land_Mining_and_Resources_in_South_Africa

http://www.whatsonincapetown.com/post/review-jeannette-unite-youngblood-gallery/

http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/paradoxical-beauty-of-toxic-minerals-1725226

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http://arttimes.co.za/abroad-devon-uk-cannw/

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http://asai.co.za/artist/jeannette-unite/

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