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.

Kim Anderson: 1 - 29 March 2009

Kim Anderson's practice is inspired by images of the body, in particular the expressive potential of the hands and feet. In Hill End, Kim is keen to work in a place infused with human presence and creative activity, and an environment that resonates with such a strong historical and emotional significance. Kim's residency is funded by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

Sarah-Mace Dennis: 6 April - 3 May 2009

One of twenty emerging film makers to be selected for the Raw Nerve program, Sarah-Mace Dennis will use her time in Hill End to shoot her first short film, Rebel Wessex. Sarah-Mace will also work on a new video project, Reconfiguring Forgotten Ecologies - a series of works that explore the potential that video practice offers for constructing 'inspirited' landscapes as part of her PhD in Media Arts at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Sarah-Mace's residency is funded by the Department of Environment & Climate Change.

Noelene Lucas: 10 May - 7 June 2009

Installation artist Noelene Lucas is currently developing a new body of work on weather that is directly related to particular places and communities. Hill End will provide an invaluable opportunity to further this project through engagement with the community and the landscape to produce a video based work which records the local weather conditions over the period of her residency. Noelene's residency is funded by Arts NSW.

Peter Adams: 30 August - 27 September 2009

Since 1977, photographer Peter Adams has returned to Hill End several times to document the landscape, people and stories of the village. He plans to use his residency to complete the project by turning it into an exhibition of portraits and landscapes and possibly a coffee table book of interviews, anecdotes, historical facts and unlikely fiction. Peter's residency is funded by Arts NSW.

Maggie Henton: 14 June - 12 July 2009

British artist Maggie Henton will respond to Hill End's mining industry using images of tools and maps of land claims as well as images and textures form the landscape and architecture of the site, particularly its walls and fences, in order to explore the possible interrelationships between these spaces.

Anne Ferguson: 7 October - 4 November 2009

Anne Ferguson is one of Australia's leading public artists. Public commissions include St Patrick's Cathedral, the Australian War Memorial, Australian National University and New Parliament House. In Hill End Anne will develop new work which references the architecture of both Hill End and Bathurst.

Julie Ryder: 6 November - 4 December 2009

During her Hill End residency textile artist Julie Ryder will research and develop ideas for a new body of work that revolves around the theme of human absence and presence, both physical and intangible, within the natural and constructed landscape. Julie's residncy if funded by Arts NSW.