Residency report: Karlina Mitchell and Lee Mitchell

Gunyah was a time of rest and productivity. We started by working on individual projects, I spent time writing and reflecting on work and exhibitions I have been part of over the last 12 months. Lee found an amazing resource at the local Hawks Nest tip and finished a series of zines made from reclaimed books and paper. We went on bushwalks around North Arm Cove, I took photos and we worked on developing ideas for our collaborative project. The project explores our childhood experiences and we found this being reflected in the adventures we had with our kids when at Gunyah.


Gunyah residency report, September 2024
Karlina Mitchell & Lee Mitchell


Karlina Mitchell, photograph.

Lee Mitchell, zine.


Upcoming artist-in-residence: Bronwyn Rennex

Bronwyn Rennex

Bronwyn Rennex is a writer, artist and arts professional, living on Gadigal Land, in Sydney's inner west. Her creative non-fiction work combines pictures and words - sometimes her own, sometimes others' - to consider how history resonates in the present. Bronwyn is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle and 2024 Visiting Scholar at State Library of NSW.


Bronwyn Rennex, Life with Birds, 2022


Bronwyn's first book, 'Life with Birds' was published by Upswell in 2022. It's a delicate commonplace book that invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an essential and overlooked part of Australian military history.


Bronwyn Rennex, No, No, No, 2004, cyanotype



"... During my residency I plan to continue my work with the idiosyncratic First Fleet journals of Ralph Clark who, as his transcribers suggested, might be 'the original whinging Pom'. I have collated extracts from his journals and plan to use the residency to respond to and riff off them, thinking about dreams, women, colonisation and birds ..."


You can find out more about Bronwyn's work on her website bronwynrennex.com and Instagram @frombron
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