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Kate Brown, Contraption Molecular, 2010,
still image from stop motion animation |
Kate Brown, Anastasia Freeman, Michelle Genders, Robin
Hungerford, Renee Oldfield and Thomas Hungerford are a group of friends who each have their own art practices and are coming together to work on a collaborative project. During their residency at Gunyah they plan to work together within the structure and process of film making. This filmatic project will
extend their individual practices, as well as open up new and interesting
possibilities through collaboration. They will be combining their own individual
experience in object, performance, environment, technique, costume, lighting
and place.
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| Thomas Hungerford, Open Forum, 2009, sculptural sound installation |
Aiming to create an art house
style film with supernatural, real and surreal elements in a naturalistic
setting focusing on the sea and the bush, we’ll each create an idea for a scene
in the film and take on the role of directing this scene. Our collaboration
will link scenes together through video and non-linear/linear story boards,
using editing processes and other effects to complete the film. We imagine that
our resulting film will be a series of vignettes with similar themes running
through them alongside six different trajectories. This process will imagine a
dreamscape of different ideas and techniques while providing a platform for our
individual input to fit together. This project lends itself to various creative
outcomes as we are all highly technical in our approaches to creative
development. Although we are practicing artists in various creative fields, our
interests and aesthetic ideas correlate and we have a great respect for each
other’s work. After the residency, we intend to create individual spin off
works from the film that may be shown as part of a group show at a later date.
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Kate Brown, Flight over Hollywood, 2009,
still image from single channel video |
Kate Brown is an artist and musician. She has exhibited at
Firstdraft, been in residence at Anyplace Project Space and was a part of the
2011 PACT Ensemble. With video, performance, installation and sound as major
components of her practice Kate analyses the functions of the body/object to
explore ways of remapping space and time. While the themes that occupy her
practice are vast, she strives to investigate surreal, subtle illusory and
technical qualities in light, sound and movement. Kate is currently undergoing
a mentorship with PACT theatre’s Julie Vulcan and Cat Jones and collaboratively
devising curatorial art projects for the UWS archive, Sydney Museum and
Historic Houses Trust.
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Kate Brown and Samuel Bruce, Dimensions perceived by the organs of hearing, 2011,
a collaborative sound installation and performance exhibited at Firstdraft Gallery |
Kate has studied Fine Art at the University of Western Sydney and been awarded a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. There are many influences that come into Kate’s practice; her
main focus is directed at the subtitles of the world and documenting them. She has exhibited widely in Sydney and interstate, and is determined for her
rigorous art practice to take her far and wide collaborating, exhibiting and
creating. Kate Brown is currently working on new projects that intertwine her
visual arts practice with contemporary performance methods.
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Anastasia Freeman, Collected turnings, 2006,
video still, exhibited in Crtl+alt+del, Canberra Contemporary Artspace |
Anastasia Freeman is an interdisciplinary artist working with drawing, video, performance and installation. Anastasia creates a rich visual language that operates within the construct's of its own other-worldliness. Whimsical gestures and weaving narratives inform much of her practice. Her recent work leans towards that of the relational and has been collaborative in nature.
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Anastasia Freeman, The postcard project, 2010, interactive installation
and hand drawn postcards, exhibited in The Sophia Exchange, Kudos Gallery |
Anastasia trained at The Julian Ashton Art School, The
School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney, and has been awarded a Bachelor of Art Education from College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Currently she is the Art Editor and contributor
for Pan Magazine literary biannual. She has been making and exhibiting work
consistently for the past decade, collaborated on projects and curating Sydney exhibitions and fundraisers. In more recent years, her
art practice has become a vehicle for exploring and documenting relationships
and the relational through interactive installations and various forms of
portraiture.
For more information information and images of Anastasia's art practice please see www.lamaisondemilleplateaux.blogspot.com.au
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| Michelle Genders, Things you can see to indicate things you can't see 1, 2012 |
Michelle Genders is a Sydney based emerging artist. Her
multidisciplinary practice includes drawing, small scale sculpture, wearable
objects, installation and images. She uses a mixture of enduring and
ephemeral materials to generate gestural and expressive work. Michelle's
process is labour intensive and meditative where simple solutions are chosen.
Her current body of work explores the intersection between science and
spirituality with respect to the polarity that appears to categorise our
experience - that which is inside of us and that which is outside of us.
Aspects of these areas that she has been researching and responding to include
cosmology, rhythms in nature, human interpretation of nature and the cosmos,
mystical poetry, visual illusions and human perceptual processes. Her own
experiences in the natural world have also influenced her work.
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| Michelle Genders, Neoplastic nudibranch neckpiece, 2011 |
Michelle has been awarded a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours in Jewellery and Object studies, from Sydney
College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. Her work has been included in the annual Utility exhibitions and national exhibitions including The Exchange
Project, Graduate Metal 12, Flight and Awareness Muscle. In 2011, she
curated and exhibited in Above Earth Below Sea, a group show of work by Japanese and Australian jewellers. Recently Michelle was a studio resident at Firstdraft Depot Studios and presented her resulting work in her first solo exhibition Phenomenal at Paper Plane Gallery in Rozelle.
For more information and images of Michelle's art practice please see www.michellegenders.blogspot.com
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| Robin Hungerford, Virtual Reality Simulator, 2009 |
Robin Hungerford is interested in the ways in
which technology shapes our culture, our perception of the world around us and the interior worlds of our own bodies. His amorphous and enigmatic video
works allude to a kind of blossoming biology which may be the result of
increasingly sophisticated genetic interventions or perhaps even their
unexpected side effects. Meanwhile colourful mixed-media constructions,
encrusted in simulated plant growth, take on a life of their own; thriving like
weeds on the fuzzy boundary which separates the synthetic from the organic and
hints at the new plasticity of life as we know it.
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| Robin Hungerford, Like a Hole in the Head Part 2, 2009 |
Robin is a Sydney-based artist whose work
utilises a diverse range of media and techniques including papier-mâché,
drawing, video, kinetic installations and, on occasion, live insects and
animals. More recently his practice has expanded to include himself as a
performer in videos and live works. He has been awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
University of Western Sydney and a Master of Visual Arts from the University of
Sydney. Robin has exhibited regularly in Sydney artist-run-initaive galleries, was a
finalist in the 2010 Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship and one of the
artists featured in Let the Healing Begin at the Institute of Modern Art in
Brisbane. Hungerford's most recent work Shamanic Organic Contemporary
Cuisine is a live multimedia and performance spectacle loosely based on the
format of a televised cooking show, and was featured as part of the 2012 Nextwave
festival in Melbourne.
For more information and images of Robin's art practice please see www.robinhungerford.wordpress.com
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| Robin Hungerford, The Fix, 2011, video still |
Renee Oldfield is currently studying production design at Enmore Design Centre. She works across illustration, textiles and video; around the themes of natural
forms and the human body. Renee has assisting with theatre technical production and set design in a number of theatre performances in
Sydney and the Blue mountains. She also expands beyond theatre working in experimental performance, collaborative projects and her own solo practice.
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| Renee Oldfield, China, 2012, costume design |
Renee is originally from Blue Mountains and has a
background in fine arts and theatre production. In 2009, she lived in London
where she worked on live performance art shows and worked at the Victoria and
Albert museum, assisting with exhibitions as a volunteer. She has worked
with a Sydney based poetry group Caravan Slam in Sydney and at the Pete's Ridge Music Festival.
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| Renee Oldfield, drawing and collage |
Thomas Hungerford is an artist and multi-instrumentalist. His
practice revolves around creating audio and visual installations made
from a variety of materials such as musical instruments, electric motors and a
variety of modified ready-made objects. These installations are designed to
create a feeling of 'otherworldliness' and induce a hypnotic-like trance within
the viewer. Thomas also performs bass guitar and vocals in the experimental
grind-core metal band Mother Eel.
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| Thomas Hungerford, Raging Horn, 2007, sculptural sound installation |
Thomas has been awarded a Bachelor in Fine Arts with Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. He explores the uncharted territories of
the human subconscious, alternative realities, popular culture, peoples
relationship to the planet, existential possibilities and the unknown. His work consists of video, audio and sculpture as installation; is often
interactive and relies on the viewer’s presence to function.
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| Thomas Hungerford, Intoxication, 2006, sculptural sound installation detail view |
