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.

MEG BUCHANAN
24 February - 24 March

A graduate of painting from the Newcastle School of Art, Meg Buchanan later studied printmaking in Paris and New York and was awarded a Master of Visual Arts (Drawing) from Monash University in 1998. She has lectured in universities in Australia and overseas, and has held senior academic positions at the Canberra Art School and National Art School, Sydney. Meg has worked full time as an artist since 2001. Hill End's mining remnants, steep gullies, grasslands and scrub areas represent a non-agricultural landscape on which Meg will base a new body of work.

ADAM CULLEN
28 March - 24 April (NSW Ministry for the Arts funded resident) 

Adam Cullen's undergraduate studies in Fine Art were undertaken at the City Art Institute during the mid 80s, and he completed a Master of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales in 1999. His work has been shown in a multitude of group exhibitions, and he has had solo exhibitions throughout Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, and Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art. Cullen's interest in Hill End goes back to his Great Great Grandfather, who mined in Hill End after emigrating from Ireland. Cullen's residency will give him the opportunity to research his family roots in the area, as well produce a new body of work for exhibition in Australia and overseas. Adam will use his time in Hill End to investigate the concept of landscape within his "human" based "scenographies" and to produce paintings, drawings, videos and installations.

SARAH JANE ROSS
28 April - 26 May

Sarah Jane Ross completed her bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT, majoring in Gold and Silversmithing in 1991. She has participated in group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands and was awarded the Jewellery Association of Australia's Platinum Jewellery Design Award in 1996. Sarah combines her practice with part time lecturing at RMIT, and is a partner in Studio Ingot, a contemporary jewellery gallery in Melbourne. As the home of the world's largest discovered piece of gold matrix (the Holtermann Nugget), Hill End is a site of intrigue for the goldsmith. Sarah plans to utilise the beauty of raw gold, silver gold and copper from the area to create contemporary jewellery which references the historical significance of gold to Australian immigration.

HENRIETTA MANNING
29 May - 12 June (Bathurst Regional Art Gallery funded resident) 

Born in the UK, Henrietta studied in London and Sydney before settling in Melbourne in 1994. In 2004, Henrietta spent four weeks living at Haefligers' Cottage. In this time, she completed portraits of 50 of the town's inhabitants and the entire school. Henrietta returns to Hill End for the opening of her exhibition In Face of Isolation at the Hill End Visitor Information Art Gallery on Saturday 8 July. This exhibition will be the first exhibition curated by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery to open at the Hill End Gallery, and will give locals and visitors a wonderful opportunity to see some of the work that comes out of the Hill End Artist in Residence Program.

BETH & OWEN NORLING
11 July - 8 August

Beth and Owen Norling are a brother and sister team who work collaboratively bringing their respective skills as illustrator and film maker to make short experimental animations. Their residency will give them the time and space to create a new animation piece that explores the landscape and spirit of Hill End.

Beth Norling is a freelance illustrator with sixteen years experience in children's book illustration. Beth has won an International Board of Book Illustration award, and her work has been exhibited in a number of galleries. Beth's current work explores visual narrative in painting based installations and drawing based animations. Owen Norling is a highly skilled post production consultant with extensive skills and experience in video editing, film making, and still photography and a passion for animation.

BEN BEETON
31 July - 25 August (Department of Environment and Conservation funded resident)

Ben Beeton studied Visual Arts at Southern Cross University, Lismore and completed Honours in Visual Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne in 2002. Based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Ben has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Toowoomba, Melbourne and Sydney. Concerned with the natural environment and its evolutionary process, Ben's multimedia landscape paintings incorporate digital imagery, drawing and painting. His large canvases depict a landscape that is both of the moment and in a state of becoming; a landscape in flux; a landscape of shifting surfaces. In Hill End, Ben plans to work with the Parks Services Division of the Department of Environment and Conservation, to research the ecology and natural history of the region and to create works that reflect a subjective/objective appraisal of the Hill End environment.

TANIA MASON
8 September - 6 October (NSW Ministry for the Arts funded resident)

Tania Mason studied sculpture and drawing at the National Art School, East Sydney, graduating in 1997. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Sydney, regional New South Wales and Melbourne and was the recipient of the Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, in 2005, and the Blackfriars Acquisitive Art Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, in 2004. Using architecture, myths, history, haunted houses and barren trees as subject matter, Tania's hauntingly dreamlike monochromatic black drawings evoke powerful mythical narratives. During her residency, Tania aims to create a sense of memory, mood and 'history of place' through her drawings Hill End's buildings, houses, trees and cemeteries and to render a unique image of Hill End.

KIRIKO SHIROBAYASHI
10 October - 7 November

Kiriko Shirobayashi was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. In 1989 she began a BFA in Photography at Osaka University of Arts and moved to the United States in 1995, completing a MFA at the School of Visual Arts in Photography and Related Media in 1999. Kiriko lives and works in New York City and Osaka, and has exhibited her work in several group and solo shows including: the Centre of Photography, Woodstock; Delaware Museum; and the National Museum of Belarus, Minsk. In a continuation of an ongoing project titled "Lines", Kiriko will photograph the Hill End landscape, focusing on the lines of the earth and the interval between earth and sky. This continually widening body of work shows the horizon lines of various landscapes across Europe, Asia and North America, and provides a dialogue between the geography of the land, and the people who experience it, uniting them just as the horizon is physically one continuous line.

ANNALISE REES
13 November - 11 December

South Australian artist Annalise Rees graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours from the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2004. She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in Adelaide, and held her first solo exhibition in 2005. Annalise uses drawing and sculpture to create installations which investigate ideas about space and place. Her wire drawings incorporating light and shadow create new spaces and environments; everyday motifs such as street directories and dressmaking patterns are used to investigate and map social and cultural attitudes towards the familiar and sometimes banal ritual of everyday life. Following from her residency at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi, India, last year, Annalise intends to use her time in the quintessentially Australian township of Hill End to reflect upon her ideas about her place within the Australian environment and to create drawing and installation site-specific works.