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.

Nicole WELCH: 1 - 30 April 2010

Nicole Welch will use the Mitchell Library's Holtermann Collection as a starting point for a new body of work utilising traditional and contemporary forms of print media, including digital photography, etching, relief print, digital print and drawing. The Holtermann Collection of Victorian era prints, albums and glass plate negatives documents life in Hill End at the height of the 1870s gold rush. Combining these historic images with narratives that explore the underbelly of Hill End's history, Welch will create works that explore the tension between the refined Victorian aesthetic and the harshness of Hill End's archetypal Australian landscape.

Juris CERINS: 7 May - 4 June 2010

The child of immigrants fleeing war torn Europe, Melbourne based artist Juris Cerins spent his childhood years in the Migrant Camp at Bathurst some 60 years ago. The opportunity to spend a month in Hill End will allow Juris to revisit the region and to create a series of en plein air gouches for exhibition. Juris will explore the experiences of the European migrants who travelled to Hill End in the 1870s through his responses to the village's remote location and the constant reminders of earlier occupation embedded in Hill End's excavated and eroded landscape.

Lee BETHEL: 28 June - 25 July 2010

Lee Bethel works with paper, watercolour and wax encaustic to create richly patterned constructions which explore the energy and poetics of the grid. Her work examines optics, space and geometric abstraction through the manipulation of paper and colour, and the interplay of light and shadow. Objects are an important source of inspiration for Bethel's work, particularly the connections to memory and self that they trigger. Hill End will provide the artist with rich material from which to develop a new body of work for exhibition at Kerrie Lowe Gallery in 2010/11.

Susannah WILLIAMS: 30 July - 28 August 2010

Susannah Williams uses collage to create site-specific installations in response to personal narratives which explore ideas of space, history, movement, memory and feeling. Intrinsic features of Williams' ‘drawn installations' are the materials she uses - paper, pins, string, tin and fairy lights; the use of the animal form; and the creation of carefully orchestrated spatial structures. Williams will transform the Jean Bellette Gallery (located at the Hill End Visitor Centre) into an open studio where visitors can watch as she develops a work based on her experience as an artist in residence for exhibition.

Vanessa WHITE: 1 - 29 September 2010

Vanessa White works in a variety of mediums including video, painting, drawing, photography and animation to explore movement in time and physical gestures. Using a video recorder, White documents herself carrying out an activity and then draws and paints each frame onto a canvas. White then photographs each frame and uses the photographs to create an animation. While in Hill End, White will work with students at the hill End Public School to make their own collaborative painting animation, as well as the creation of a new body of work influenced by Hill End's popular history and cultural myths.

Virginia CUPPAIDGE: 1 - 30 October 2010

Vanessa Cuppaidge is an Australian artist who has lived for many years in the United States. During her Hill End residency Cuppaidge aims to immerse herself in the landscape and create a series of gouache paintings on paper.
Cuppaidge's work has an extraordinary sense of colour and structure and is greatly influenced by abstract representations of nature.

Kirstie REA : 2 November - 1 December 2010

Kirstie Rea's work is underpinned by relationships with the land, rural landscapes, folklore, rural villages and local stories. During her time in Hill End Rea will take time out from running a busy glass studio to explore new ideas while developing concepts on paper and through model making. Rea's work will explore the differences and relationships between space and place, indoors and outdoors. Rea works in a variety of mediums including glass, steel, photography and drawing.

Steven CAVANAGH : 3 December 2010 - 1 January 2011

Steven Cavanagh will undertake a photographic enquiry into the lives of men who work in the mines of Hill End in the 21st century. His images will explore ideas about contemporary masculine expression in western cultures and the relationship of these men to their historical counterparts. Cavanagh's work allows the viewer to engage with the content inside the frame whilst considering more closely the world that surrounds them outside of the frame.

Cath BROPHY: 16 January - 12 February 2011

Cath Brophy creates drawings and mixed-media installations on paper by engaging with a variety of architectural sites. Brophy will use her Hill End residency to engage with the physical architecture of Hill End while undertaking research of primary documentary and photographic resources of the town. Brophy's research will result in a new body of work consisting of mixed-media studies, maquettes and plans for a site-specific installation.