JUMAADI: 20 February - 23 March 2010

Jumaadi draws on his emotional response to landscapes to create drawings and paintings. During his time in Hill End Jumaadi will research and produce a body of work informed by Hill End's landscape and history while deepening his understanding of the Australian landscape. His body of work will include interviews with the local community, photography and stories and poems and sculpture.

Mu Yin MING: 18 Feb - 19 March 2011

Mu Yin Ming has undertaken Family Portrait projects all over the world painting individual portraits which are accompanied by filmed interviews which help to reveal more about the subject. Ming aims to create art inspired by Hill End, its history, its legacy and its present. In particular Ming is inspired by the lives of Chinese sojourners who sort their fortune in the gold fields of Hill End and he seeks to communicate their stories through art. Ming will engage with the Hill End community and encourage their collaboration in the creation of his work.

Deborah vaughan: 2 January - 2 February 2009                                                                                                                              

Video installation artist Deborah Vaughan will a develop site specific video project in Hill End based on small, everyday observations of time, place and landscape. Deborah's residency is funded by the Department of Environment and Climate Change.

Helena Kaikkonen: 4 February - 5 March 2009

Helena Kaikkonen is a textile artist from Kulttuuri Kauppila Ii in Finland. Hill End will propvide Helena with the opportunity to experience the Australian landscape, and to create a new body of textile works combining natural found materials and silver and gold leaf. Helena's residency is funded by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

NATHALIE HARTOG-GAUTIER
3 February - 29 February 2008

In 2006 and 2007, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier undertook residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, and the Castle of Versailles, France. During these residencies, she undertook research and completed a series of works exploring the theme of man-shaped landscapes and garden design as being reflective of cultural and historical values and events. In Hill End, Hartog-Gautier will explore the same themes in the dramatically contrasting topography and history of Hill End. Hartog-Gautier plans to exhibit her interpretations of these two continents (representing her dual homelands) and establish dialectic from the contrasting sets of images resulting from these residencies.

EMMA WHITE
13 February - 12 March 2008

Emma White’s interest in the concept of genus loci, the spirit of place, will guide her exploration of Hill End’s past and present. Familiar with the area from childhood visits with her gold rush obsessed father, Emma plans to use her residency to generate photographs, video and sound recordings that will form the basis for exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne in late 2009. An Honors graduate in Media Art from Sydney College of Fine Arts in 2002, White completed her Master of Visual Arts in 2005 and in the same year was the inaugural recipient of the Fauvette Loriero Memorial Artist’s Scholarship.

TOM THOMPSON
2 April – 30 April 2007

Art historian and publisher Tom Thompson was first introduced to Donald Friend’s Hillendiana as a 12 year old. Since then, Tom has been fascinated by Hill End, its artists, and the life and legacy of 19th century photographer Bernard Holtermann. While in Hill End, Thompson will work on a documentary film on the current Hill End experience using original documents and interviews conducted with artists Donald Friend and Jean Bellette in the 1980s.

MICHAEL BELL
21 July - 18 August 2007

Australian artist Michael Bell plans to create a new series of paintings and etchings inspired by visiting the unfamiliar terrain of Hill End. For Bell, the process of making artworks is all about being in a new place and finding fresh ideas. Hill End will represent a shift for Bell from the suburban themed works he has created in recent years, and will allow the artist to discover new imagery based on Hill End's unique landscape and history.

DANIEL KOJTA
25 January - 22 February

Daniel Kojta is based in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Installation/Sculpture at the University of Western Sydney in 2004 and is currently undertaking Honours. Predominantly working in the fields of film and new media installation, Daniel's work examines and challenges the role of the audience as passive observer. Daniel travels extensively to remote areas, and Hill End will provide the ideal environment for contemplation and collaboration. Daniel plans to collaborate with local tradesman and combine contemporary new media technologies with traditional trade methodologies in the development of a new installation work.

MITCHELL KELLY
29 December 2005 - 29 January 2006

Mitchell Kelly completed a Bachelor of Art Education (Visual Arts) at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 2003. As an emerging artist, Mitchell seeks to strengthen his knowledge and understanding of the painting process through the Australian landscape. As a 'translator for the immediate environment', Mitchell creates a visual language of mark-making representing the natural conditions of the landscape such as sounds, textures and lines. In Hill End, Mitchell will escape the restrictions of metropolitan Sydney and immerse himself in the 'Explorer Country' landscape of Hill End. He also plans to use Hill End as the primary motif for his exhibition Exploring Country to be held at Richard Martin Art, Woollahra in February in 2006.

SARAH LAST
1 February - 18 March

Sarah completed a Bachelor of Art Education (Visual Arts) at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 1999. Since then she has worked within the arts industry as an arts educator, curator and artist including various positions at Casula Powerhouse and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Currently she is the Director of the Booranga Writers Centre based in the Riverina.

SAMUEL JAMES
1 February - 28 February (NSW Ministry for the Arts 2004)

Sam has worked as a Theatre Designer and New Media artist for theatre, dance and performance since leaving the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1995. Before that he studied Architecture and Art Theory at the University of Adelaide. He has designed productions for most of the NSW and interstate contemporary performance and community theatre companies utilising film, video and slide projection.

IAN MARR
25 February – 26 March (NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Ian Marr has worked as an artist in many media since the 1970's. For the last decade Ian has practiced the ancient craft of letter cutting, rarely now used in Australia, and has travelled to London and Ireland to study with masters of the tradition. Ian cuts text from literature and philosophy of the world onto slate and sandstone. He is particularly interested in placing test in stone in public and private gardens and in bushland settings.

CHARLEY LEADER
21 March - 19 April

Based in Victoria Charley Leader completed a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. The power of childhood memories from family camping trips to Hill End gave Charley the desire to return to the Village and engage with the area and the local community. A significant aspect of her practice examines the capacity for the physical characteristics of materials to convey meaning.

JO BERTINI
17 February - 10 March

A Sydney based painter, Jo has been exhibiting throughout Australia for over ten years. Prior to this she lived, worked and exhibited in Italy and France. An avid bushwalker and kayaker, her work is inspired by the natural world and landscape. Her current work experiments with the possibility of illuminating paintings from "within" through the incorporation of different surfaces such as glass, perspex and drafting film.

GARRY SHEAD
31 March – 28 April

One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Garry Shead has been exhibiting in Australia for over thirty years, including thirteen Archibald Prize exhibitions. He won the Archibald in 1993. Married to Hungarian sculptor Judith Englert, the couple lives in the coastal town of Bundeena on the NSW South Coast – the inspiration for the Bundeena Paintings and his now famous DH Lawrence series.

ANA YOUNG
15 February - 15 March 2002
Painter

Ana Young graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting) from the National Art School in 2000. During the last two years Ana has developed a body of work inspired by two locations: the abandoned graveyard, Sofala, and an uninhabited farmhouse near Bourke, Western New South Wales.

TOM SPENCE
February 2001
Graphics/painter b. Australia 1953

Tom was born and raised on a large property in outback Queensland. He later studied at the College of Fine Art Sydney. 1n 1994, he was awarded the Dobell Prize for drawing. The same year, he participated in the pilot residency program at the Haefliger cottage Hill End. In 1998 he was awarded the Blake Prize for Religious Art.

PETER PINSON
Jan - Feb 2000
Painter

Peter studied at the National Art School and Sydney Teachers College and taught at Bathurst High School between 1965 and 1967. In 1968 he was awarded the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship to London and France. He is currently Professor at the University of NSW College of Fine Arts.

JOHN REID
April - May 1999
Painter b. New Zealand 1956.

John studied and worked in the field of biochemistry before becoming a full time artist. He studied at the Camden Art School in London. His work has been informed by the work of Lloyd Rees and Colin McCahon. John exhibits regularly in Sydney and was awarded a Gunnery Studio in 2001.