\\\”Jeannette\\\’s passion for Africa cannot go without comment. She uses her art to tell the sad story of exploitation, environmental degradation, double standards, slavery and cheap labour perpetrated by corporations. Her work strives to depict andsymbolize the different issues that impact on inequality that affects poor mining communities and issues that affect the rest of the continent. She challenges these controversial post colonial issues and refuses to be intimidated in her practice. Jeannette uses art as a weapon, her works on paper, glass and wooden panels using natural materials found on abandoned mines that remind us of the lack of responsibility by both mining companies and African Governments. — Excerpt from ‘Africa Cursed with Resources explored in Jeannette Unite’s Art Practice’ by Raphael Chikukwa, EARTHSCARS, 2010
Jeannette unite, earthscars, terra, oliewenhuis, mining, drawing, painting
Artist: Jeannette Unite
Essays by: Andrew Lamprecht, Kathryn Smith, Jeannette Unite, Kim Gurney, Ashraf Jamal, Melvyn Minaar, Chris Roper, Raphael Chikukwa
Gallery: Oliwenhuis, Bloemfontein
Dates: 9 April 2010 – 23 May 2010
Website: http://frontiercountry.blogspot.co.za/2010/03/terra-mining-artists-paintbox-from.html
Pages: 48
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