Jean Brundrit: Over the Horizon

CAE2406

Summary Note

Photographer Jean Brundrit traveled to the Antarctic in 2019-2020 where she coupled ice lenses with her medium format camera or used her 4x5 view camera. Materials include photographs, exhibition ephemera, and press materials.

Biographical Note

Jean Brundrit is a photographer living in Cape Town, South Africa, where she teaches photography in the Fine Art Department at the University of Cape Town. Brundrit was born in Cape Town in 1966 and completed a BA in Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1989, and an Advanced Diploma in 1992 at the same institution. In 2000, Brundrit was awarded her Master of Art in Fine Art at the University of Stellenbosch. She produced a body of work titled Lavender Menace, which she exhibited at Cape Town's Association of Visual Arts and Johannesburg's Market Theatre Gallery, in 1999. The exhibition consisted of two groups of photographs: A Dyke Career Calendar (1999) and Does Your Lifestyle Depress Your Mother? (1999). Brundrit started teaching in 1989 at UCT and subsequently at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), in Johannesburg, where she was appointed as a Senior Technician in Printmaking. She taught at the Fine Art Department of the University of Stellenbosch and is currently an Associate Professor in the Fine Art Department of the University of Cape Town.

Scope and Content

Photographer Jean Brundrit has long experimented with alternative photographic techniques and started making lenses out of ice in 2016 before traveling to the Antarctic in 2019-2020 where she coupled ice lenses to a medium format camera, alternatively to her 4x5 view camera. She exhibited and published both black-and-white and color images using both cameras from the expedition.

Materials include photographs, exhibition ephemera, and press materials.

Arrangement

Jean Brundrit: Over the Horizon is arranged into four folders organized by subject.

Inclusive Dates

2015-2024

Bulk Dates

2019-2021

Quantity / Extent

.5 cubic feet

Language

English

Related Archive Collections

CAE1103: Joan Myers: Wondrous Cold, An Antarctic Journey
CAE1117: William L. Fox: Terra Antarctica
CAE1218: Jean de Pomereau: Antarctic Photographs
CAE1219: Stuart Klipper: The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole
CAE1903: David Arnold: Antarctic Re-Explorations
CAE1910: Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica
CAE2108: Martin Walch: Another Time: Temporal Rhythms in the Antarctic Summer
CAE2302: Patricia Suchy and Vince LiCata: Persistence of Vision: Antarctica

Related Publications

Brundrit, Jean. Over the Horizon. South Africa: Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, 2022.

Container Listing:

ARCH-FILE 114-1
- Folder 1 Artist Information, 2015 – 2024
- Folder 2 Project Information and Photographs, 2019
- Folder 3 Over the Horizon Exhibition, 2 June – 8 July 2021
- Folder 4 Over the Horizon Book, 2022

Additional Materials

Archive F32 Oversized Items

2#8 Untitled (11), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#9 Untitled (12), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#10 Untitled (13), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#11 Untitled (14), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#12 Untitled (15), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#13 Untitled (16), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#14 Untitled (17), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#15 Untitled (18), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#16 Untitled (19), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#17 Untitled (20), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#18 Untitled (21), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#19 Untitled (22), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#20 Untitled (23), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#21 Untitled (24), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#22 Untitled (25), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024
2#23 Untitled (26), Color Photograph, 2019/2020, Printed 2024