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Jeannette Unite

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Jeannette Unite (born 20 January 1964) is a South African artist who has collected 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 industrial sites where humanity’s contemporary world is manufactured. Her industrial-scale mining Headgear drawings and “TERRA” paintings were exhibited at Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany in the reconstructed building on the site of mining headquarters for the Ruhr Valley in commemoration of 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 the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW), Exeter University, Devon, between October 2015 and February 2016. This travelling exhibition also formed part of the United Nations’ Year of Soil and the British Geological Society’s Year of Mud.

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Mzansi Golden Economy Grant, SA Department Arts and Culture (funding for TERRA in Dortmund, Germany and COMPLICIT GEOGRAPHIES, CCANW, Exeter University, Devon) 2016; MacIver Scholarship, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. 2013; Twamley Postgraduate Bursary, University of Cape Town. 2013; 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. 2012; Fellowship Artist-in-Residency, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town 2011

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