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’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.