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| Britta's family take the Gunyah dingy out on the water, photo by Britta Stenmanns 2011 |
The love and thought put into building Gunyah by people who cared is so evident. I just loved it and so did the rest of the family - what a bliss that there is no TV.
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| The Gunyah dingy and seat by the water, photo by Britta Stenmanns 2011 |
Gunyah as a house and its surrounding native vegetation close to the waters edge has a sense of the calmness. The building's unity with the environment creates within you a sort of belonging that is perfect for focussing and immersing yourself in a project.
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| View from the Gunyah bay window, photo by Britta Stenmanns 2011 |
We did some great bushwalks and learnt some interesting things about the area's incredible vegetation and tribal history. We decided to leave some of our handmade pottery cups for other artists to use at Gunyah, two blue glazed and two wood-fired ones of Simon's.
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| Britta's family on a bushwalk, photo by Britta Stenmanns 2011 |
I had a daily ritual with brisk bushwalks in the morning searching for certain areas in the surrounding bush for branches of charcoaled trees to work with. During daylight I worked close to the house and by nightfall I moved into the studio space. The place gave me a slightly different approach and motivation on my project and new avenues to follow up in the future.
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| Britta's painting materials in the Gunyah studio space, photo by Britta Stenmanns 2011 |
My time as artist-in-residence at Gunyah was of immense value and gave me the perfect opportunity to gather myself and to get focussed in a pure undisrupted way, a luxury in nowadays-busy lifestyle.
Britta Stenmanns, artist-in-residence July 2011
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| Looking at a wallaby from the Gunyah balcony, photo by Britta Stenmanns |
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| Close-up of the wallaby and joey, viewed from the Gunyah balcony photo by Britta Stenmanns |
To see Britta Stenmanns' residency proposal please follow this link and for more information and images of her work please see www.brittastenmanns.com.au
