Unite Studio Jeannette | 151 Buitenkant St, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001

Jeannette Unite is a visual artist who is immersed in the materiality of the art making process whether it is using her own large hand-made chalk-based pastels with mineral oxides or using similar metal oxides in glass artworks, paintings or prints. She uses images, information and metaphors from mining as a point of departure for her reflections on her own personal journeys.She travels to mining and industrial sites for samples, to research and photographically record evidence of the residual remains of power, industrialisation and neo-colonialism on the African landscape. She brings together, along with her vast collection of images relating to industrial landscapes, her deep interest in mining and its impact on the land, and her great pleasure in colour and materials. In this mix she engages both in a study of archive, in the evocation of landscape as metonymy and in a kind of monumentalism that is reminiscent of Earth artists who at once drew attention to the bleak limits of human habitation and the human