Women Born In The 1960s

"The fragile and ephemeral process of candle smoke Victor felt was an appropriate medium for the portraits of the primates rendered fragile and impermanent by mankind."

"I hope we will have developed partnerships and cooperative relations with scholars in other parts of the world, especially in the Global South. For me, such pooling of intellectual and material resources will generate new and necessary ways of engaging with the world's challenges."

"Unite is one of the world's most respected artists when it comes to mining. Due to her artistically unconventional approach, she is often compared to an alchemist. In the creation and production of its works of art, Unite benefits significantly from its strong physical, chemical, geological and historical knowledge."

"Due to her artistically unconventional approach, she is often compared to an alchemist. In the creation and production of its works of art, Unite benefits significantly from her strong physical, chemical, geological and historical knowledge."

"The images I am working with are taken from our daily media coverage of recent and almost commonplace happenings in newspapers, on TV and on radio of social and criminal acts of violence and ongoing unnecessary deaths – occurrences so frequent that they no longer raise an outcry from our public, yet they still constitute disaster in peacetime."

"Victor's smoke portraits explore subjects often overlooked, for example South African prisoners awaiting trial and missing children. These portraits capture individuals caught in a vulnerable moment, an idea reinforced through the impermanent nature of the medium used."

"The portraits are made with the deposits of carbon from candle smoke on white paper. They are exceedingly fragile and can be easily damaged, disintegrating with physical contact as the carbon soot is dislodged from the paper. She was interested in the extremely fragile nature of these human lives and of all human life, attempting to translate this fragility into portraits made from a medium as impermanent as smoke itself."

"I'm not sure I really bought it, but the clearness of the artist's intention and her apparent sincerity cannot be ignored. In the catalogue and abridged essay which appears with the list of works, I found Unite's claims grandiose and her jumps from one subject to another a little unbelievable and unresolved. I also battle to discern the relationship between pretty abstract paintings and a peppering of very specific themes. Nevertheless, as a visually consistent body of work and a thorough exploration of various media I find it interesting."

"Jeannette Unite also works directly with the products of mining. She, however, signals the artist’s complicity in the industry. Creating her own pastels using pigments ground from leftover minerals and mine tailings she continues the tradition of landscape representation, but knowingly constructs her images from the constituents of land itself."

"Mining has been central to her practice since an introduction to alluvial diamond prospecting pits on the Palaeolithic African West Coast beach resulted in her first body of work Earthscars (2004). The exhibition engaged the damage done directly to the earth by excavation, and aligned her concerns with an eco‐ feminist consciousness of earth as body."

"The First Lady has continued to amplify the voices of not only her fellow citizens but African women as a whole, like the 14-year-old Cameroonian American philanthropist Mongai Fankam."

"We are not doing this for our country, but for our brothers and sisters in other countries."

"She has a deep reverence for all these substances and also a deep knowledge of their origin, their age, their occurrences. For them, it is important that we humans as end consumers and consumers develop a deeper awareness of the fact that practically everything we use every day comes from the minerals and materials we find on and in the earth. We ourselves consist of it! Unite is passionate about mixing, batching, firing, melting and reacting its substances. This passion and energy is clearly noticeable in her work. She works largely in the open air at home, so that the wind and other factors also leave room for chance."

"First Lady of Cabo Verde, Ligia Fonseca, is a woman who possesses a strong mind, storing and producing great legal knowledge, and an even stronger heart that possesses compassion and a drive to make a change."

"It is truly inspiring to see such an influential leader be involved with and active in advocating for global causes."

"On her travels, Jeannette Unite collects ore-containing sand from the dumps, as well as dust, overburden and metal oxides. She uses them as a painting medium on her picture carriers, which makes her art something very special. The artworks thus contain waste products from industrial mining that develop amazing colors and patterns when they react chemically, for example, or are melted in the artist's kiln at extreme temperatures (her studio is half chemistry lab, half office, half apartment)."

"Strelitzias and bones are ubiquitously the stuff of still life at high schools and tertiary institutions. Themes of flight, transcendence and masks as well as painting's relationship to music have also been well explored in these contexts. All of the above feature prominently in Jeanette Unite's show entitled 'Sentences', and it is for this reason that I found myself suffering from a sense of deja-vu. Somehow though, I felt reluctant to dislike the exhibition. Perhaps it is the energy which clearly suffuses the show or perhaps the sincerity of Unite's quotes which appear throughout the well-produced catalogue. She may, I guess, believe herself but I'm a little less sure."

"In Jeannette's work, the degree of abstraction varies. While in the abstract works just discussed the powerful effect of the self-created colours dominates and a very sensual, atmospheric impression is created, the objects in the "Highgear" series with the conveyor frames are clearly recognizable to the viewer. We can clearly see winding towers, machines, wheel bucket excavators, cranes... But even in these works there are undefined areas."

"To ensure that her work has a minimal impact on the environment Carolyn’s work involves the collection and reclamation of spent paint from painters – ranging from international artists to local contract painters. She removes the leftover paint from tins or cans and uses this paint to create her masterpieces such as Threshold and Transcodes featured in this Blog post. She even uses the hardened bits of nail varnish."

"“I have always had an interest in where things come from and where they’re going and in my works I focus on the intrinsic connection that paint has with land.”"

"“Often I find that artists have an attachment to their old paint tubes, Marlene Dumas for example kept her tubes since she was a student.”"

"“I see my work as breaking down something unusable in order to build it up in the form of an artwork which ideally will be kept indefinitely.”"

"“I build layer upon layer and before I know it, it is 10 kg.”"

"“My goal is to always look intensely at the impact of what I do in my life, where something I use comes from, what it really is, and where it’s going.”"

"“I have a friend who struggles financially, and I love the way it’s reflected in her tubes with every last drop squeezed out of them. Other tubes have remnants such as hairs trapped in paint that has oozed out of the tube and dried, or the smudged paint fingerprints where they have been squeezed.”"

"“As an artist, you’re always throwing away small amounts of paint, but when you add it up, you realise how substantial it is. The idea came to me after I’d completed a large installation. I had so much paint left at the end of it, that I realised the extent of the leftover paint – the weight and heaviness of it. So I decided to work with it.”"

"Some of the ingredients in the pigment used in paint are poisonous and produce toxic waste during their manufacture. As environmental awareness increases many paint suppliers are improving their environmental credentials. However labelling can often be misleading."

"“No matter how depressing the environmental debate can become, creative thinking and action and shift it into positive territory and has the potential to precipitate and evolutionary leap that can benefit all.”"

"I integrate this paint in works that can be considered as landscape due to the destiny of the paint as landfill before being reclaimed in an artwork. The weight of the paint informs the title of the works."

"Justice Gordon's dedicated work ethic and commitment to advancing legal education at the highest level meant that her involvement with Melbourne Law School has only increased with time."

"My art is underpinned by ongoing research into the impact of artists and their art making upon environment."

"“Over the past few years I have collected spent and discarded paint from acclaimed international artists such as Marlene Dumas to local house painters where I live. I integrate this paint in works that, to me, are actual landscapes, because the paint was destined for landfill before becoming part of the artwork,”"

"Over the past few years I have collected spent and discarded paint from acclaimed international artists such as Marlene Dumas to local house painters."

"“My art is underpinned by ongoing research into the impact of artists and their art making upon environment and a thought that I once came across, which is constantly on my mind, is that when you throw away there is no away.”"

"From the outset, her teaching has been extraordinarily popular and is very well received by students each year. With two such significant judges teaching the subject, there are a lot of legal professionals who want to take it, to hear what Justice Gordon and Justice Hayne have to say about statutory interpretation."

"My appointment as a Justice of the High Court of Australia is exciting but I am very well aware that large challenges lie ahead. The work of the Court is relentless and, inevitably, comprises the truly hard cases. That combination presents both the challenges and the rewards of the tasks that lie ahead."

"Be yourself. You are who you are, and you have much to give in whatever you are doing."

"I agreed to present a course on tax litigation with The Hon. Ken Jenkinson QC and Tony Pagone QC (as he then was). As a junior practitioner, it was daunting teaching with such senior practitioners."

"After just a few years, I commenced to teach the course, and still do, with Simon Steward QC and Ms Lisa Hespe."

"It has been fascinating creating and teaching a new course. I learn far more than I teach… Teaching has its own challenges. Trying to pass on to others the knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary to an understanding of a particular area of the law is itself an education. And there is always the pleasure when you see that a student understands the point you are trying to make."

"Hard work and application remain as important as they have always been. I have enjoyed my time as a practising lawyer, barrister, teacher, and judge. In the end, it is dealing and interacting with others —clients, junior barristers at the bar, participants in the Indigenous lawyers program, my associates, and my students — from whom I have learned and benefitted that has been the most rewarding. You always learn more from those you interact with."

"Justice Gordon is keen to embrace the challenges of working as a High Court Judge, following her recent appointment."

"Justice Gordon is just the fifth woman appointed to the Court in its 112-year history, joining The Hon. Susan Mary Kiefel AC and The Hon. Virginia Bell, making a total of three women on the High Court bench."

"I looked for her in detention, but she was never there."

"This week Judge Leanne Clare was invited back to her old high school for the unveiling of the second ever star to be added to the brick wall outside the office, bearing her name"

"It's an honour she never expected to be given, then again, she never imagined she'd be married to fellow classmate Gary, a 4KQ presenter, either."

"She took the smart classes, I took lunch,"

"These authors are always inspired by a specific reality and follow that story. So, whether or not we choose an author, a theme, or a text has a lot to do with that. The first work by Mia Couto that we adapted was a strong critique of the bureaucratic system and corruption in Mozambique. Our politicians went to see that play and laughed a lot (it was a satire) and that was a way that Mia has of talking about problems with art. Another text of his that I adapted was Flight of the Flamingos, which also addresses the theme of corruption, scandals, and crimes. We need to bring the book to life, make visible what the author wanted to say there, make it public."

"I started working on child abuse cases and the work just grabbed me,"

"I realised, it's not just defence work that helps vulnerable people. Prosecuting is about protecting people… it's about giving people the justice they deserve."