Jeannette Unite, Date of Birth

    

Jeannette Unite

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1964

Profession: photographer, artist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Jeannette Unite

  • 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 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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