Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig: upcoming artists-in-residence




Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig, Lake Hart, 2006

Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig are artists based in Katoomba, Blue Mountains NSW. They are currently researching a new body of work dealing the nature of travel and the expedition. This work will move on from their previous practice of exploring the relationship of the figure in various landscapes both real and imagined, to look more deeply at the ways in which we move through landscapes in space and time. As such creating a sense of journey is important to their current practice, as is seeking out new environments to reflect on the act of travelling.  

Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig, Submerging, 2009

 Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig have been working together as artists and designers for over eight years, initially as The Contextual Villains and currently as Racket. Their practice is diverse and runs the gamut of photomedia, collage, video, textiles and installation to website and book design. The basis for their work is often rooted in the discovery of human relationships with the environment, both real and imagined. They have explored these ideas in numerous exhibitions, short films, self publications and residencies nationally and throughout Asia. Most recently they produced a series of architectural projections for The National Portrait Gallery and the Museum for Australian Democracy as part of the Enlighten festival in Canberra.

For more information please see www.racket.net.au
Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig, Her water table rising, 2008 

Into the Unknown: an exhibition by Gunyah's first artist-in-residence, Kurt Sorensen

The photographs in this exhibition are my interpretation of the relationship between the Australian landscape and early European settlement, directly referencing the inherent fears and anxieties that seem to permeate through their interactions. It is this influence that the Australian landscape had on the psyche of European settlers (an influence that I feel still exists today) that directs my photographic work.

In order to capture this anxiety I research historical stories from colonial history and then attempt to represent these events in my images. The stories researched are often momentous yet largely unknown. The photographs are a comment on the often-tragic attempts to control a wild and misunderstood landscape. They were created using large format film cameras and are taken at the approximate time of day that the event took place using available light sources.

Kurt Sorensen 

Into the Unknown, Kurt Sorensen, Solo Exhibition, 19 September - 14 October 2012
Dickerson Gallery: 34 Queen Street, Woollahra, Sydney NSW 2025

Into the Unknown, exhibition invitation, Kurt Sorensen

Read about Kurt's residency at Gunyah and his experiences being Gunyah's first artist-in-residence.

Shuffle Shuffle: artists-in-residence August 2012


Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

The August 2012 Gunyah artists-in-residence fostered the birth of Shuffle Shuffle...
Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford, Renee Oldfield and Thomas Hungerford
Shuffle Shuffle = an interdisciplinary (meaning we work with what we got) super art team, that is bound only by the laws of physics and the gravitational pull of after effects video editing. 

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle is laughter,
Shuffle Shuffle is improvised performance,
Shuffle Shuffle is dancing drunk and refuses to go to bed - "you can't make me!", 
Shuffle Shuffle yells incoherently,
Shuffle Shuffle is coming to a projector near you...

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Before Shuffle Shuffle, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford, Renee Oldfield and Thomas Hungerford, were just a group of friends, each with their own art practice, who occasionally talked about working on a collaborative film project.
For our residency at Gunyah we took a station wagon full of equipment, materials and props. Then we experimented with these to shoot scenes outside in the natural environment and inside the house - often using a green screen so that visuals can be inserted later. We were inspired by and experimented with what we took with us and what we found at Gunyah.
(Michelle Genders )

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

Shuffle Shuffle, Gunyah 2012, 
Thomas Hungerford, Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford and Renee Oldfield

To read the Gunyah artists-in-residence proposal from Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin Hungerford, Renee Oldfield and Thomas Hungerford; go to www.gunyah.blogspot.com.au/2012/07

Port Stephens Diary of Natural Events - September


An extract from Michael Smith's "Port Stephens Diary of Natural Events"

SEPTEMBER

Magpies start dive-bombing.
Earthworms start their second main breeding period.
Whales are seen off the coast heading south.
Eastern Spinebills can be seen on wildflowers.
Admiral Butterflies about.
Sour Current bush begins fruiting.
Antechinus babies are born.
Young Echidnas are weaned.
Swamp Rats start to breed.
Forest Clematis begin flowering.
Orioles can be heard calling.
Scented Sun Orchids open their flowers.
The seas are alive with tuna.
Australian Indigo is in flower.
Willie Wagtails nest.
Bats can be heard at night.
Mackerel Tuna enter Port Stephens to eat schools of small fish.
Flying Fox babies are attached to their mothers.
Christmas Beetles start banging against the windows at night.
Satin Bower birds leave the coast to breed in the mountains.
Scallops spawn.
Flying Duck Orchids appear.
Red Beard Orchid flowers.
Millipedes wander into houses.
Cuckoo Shrikes feed on caterpillars.
Whiting school in Port Stephens.
Eastern Rosella chicks born a year ago have moulted and show their adult plumage for the first time.
Bandicoots start their second litter.
Emerald moths on house windows.
Channel-Billed Cuckoos arrive from New Guinea to breed.
Immature magpies loudly demand food.
Every third year young eels travel upstream.
Tiger moths are seen flying about.
Bar-Tailed Godwits arrive from the Northern Hemisphere.
Christmas Bush grows tiny buds in preparation for flowering.
Humpback whales are heading south to Antarctica.
Muttonbirds arrive from the North to breed on Broughton Island.
Feral cats have the first of two litters, of up to seven kittens.
Swamphens have their young.
Antechinus young become too large to carry in the pouch and are left in the nest.
Pythons lay their eggs.
Cranberry Heath in fruit.
Sallow Wattles have wasp galls.
Michael Smith, 1999

Rainbow Lorikeets at Gunyah, photograph by Sue Saxon,
artist-in-residence September 2011

Kate Brown: recent Gunyah artist-in-residence

Invitation: Kate Brown with special guests at the newsagency

Kate Brown with special guests:
8pm September 8th, The Newsagency Enmore

Kate Brown is a Sydney based artist and musician. With many influences under her belt buckle her original folk rock pop songs will take you on a lyrically colourful journey, spanning from the darkness in the sky to the lighter things in the fish bowl. Kate’s distinct howling vocals meshed with rhythmic dissonant jangly guitar sounds are destined to make your toes tap. This is Kate’s first headline show since joining forces with Luke Armstrong (The Naked Parade) on bass guitar and Sy Browne (Golden Orb) on djembe.

“... a solid live performer who will whisk you away and ignite old memories of good times...”

Come along and watch the moody, cheeky fun unfold supported by Damian Enemark in one of Sydney's most intimate and cosy venues, The Newsagency, corner Enmore Road and Addison Road, Enmore. www.stickytickets.com.au

Kate Brown was recently an artist-in-residence at Gunyah in August 2012
www.gunyah.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/kate-brown
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