Smythesdale
Smythesdale is Wally Gunn’s pop music project, in collaboration with lyricist Maria Zajkowski, visual artist Martin John Lee, and filmmaker Terrence Hunt.
Wally and Maria collaborated on a set of five songs in 2016, and from March – May 2020, Wally recorded them. The five-track EP ‘Space For Stars’ was released on July 15, 2020.
Visit the Smythesdale page on this website to stream FOR FREE the full 5-song EP of music, view the magnificent artwork, read the gorgeous lyrics, and follow links to the contributing artists’ sites to check out their previous work.
Contributing artists
Wally Gunn
Terrence Hunt
Martin John Lee
Maria Zajkowski
Nothing To See Here
Nothing To See Here is a new theater company whose primary goal is to make new performance works that focus on physicality and movement, rich imagery and original music composition, by bringing together artists from many disciplines in collaborative ventures with the company members. The company itself is made up of American and Australian artists, and functions as home base for collaborations between resident and visiting artists from the two countries.
Contributing artists
Scott Brennan
Danielle Brustman
Peta Coy
Ryan Drickey
Spencer Evans
Wally Gunn
Terrence Hunt
Laura Sheedy
Sō Percussion
Jason Treuting
Adrienne Truscott
2015, Long Distance
By Wally Gunn, Scott Brennan and Nothing To See Here
Directed by Laura Sheedy
Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2014, It’s Me, Me, Pistol Optional
By Nothing To See Here
Directed by Laura Sheedy
Wilson College Black Box Theater, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2013, By The Time You Get This
By Nothing To See Here
Directed by Laura Sheedy
Wilson College Black Box Theater, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2010, Suspicious Objects
By Laura Sheedy and Wally Gunn (work in progress)
Showing at Invisible Circus Artist Residence, North Blenheim, NY, USA
Biome Project
The Biome Project is a long-term collaboration between artists from many different disciplines working together to create a multimedia portrait-of-place in unique natural environments all over the planet.
Contributing artists
Wally Gunn
Terrence Hunt
Anthony Jarvis
Martin Lee
Chris Ubukata
2013 – present, Murray Darling Depression (work in progress)
The Biome Project’s first excursion to collect and develop material was in August 2013, when the artists spent a week at Nanya Research Station in the South Western corner of New South Wales, Australia. Nanya is situated in the region known as the Murray Darling Depression. The region features some extraordinary landscape, including red sand dunes and swales, salt lakes, and semi-arid flats, and hosts some rare flora communities not found elsewhere on the Australian continent. A second week-long excursion took place in June 2015 which saw the artists take existing ideas and develop them further, then branch out into new artistic experiments, some of which involved interventions in the landscape. A third excursion for 2017 is currently in the planning stages. The aim for the Biome Project is to create an immersive installation which features set design, still and moving images, and sound design, all collected and developed on site in the Murray Darling Depression.
Photography by Chris Ubukata
