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.

Nathalie Hartog-Gautier completed a Masters of Fine Art in Print Media at College of Fine art, University of New South Wales in 2004 and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1995. She has received a number of prestigious awards, including residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, and a research residency at the castle of Versailles, France. Her work is included in public and private collections in Australia and France.

KATTHY CAVALIERE
3 March - 4 April 2008

Katthy was born in Italy in 1972 and immigrated to Australia when she was 4 years old. She initially studied photography in Sydney but now works in a number of art forms, including performance, photography, video, installation, drawing and sculpture. Her artwork presents personal experiences as a metaphor for human experiences. In 2000 Katthy won the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship and in 2003 was awarded an Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board studio residency in Milan, Italy.

In 2005, Katthy spent two weeks at Murrays Cottage. During this time, she turned the studio space into a room-sized camera obscura. Katthy returns to Hill End in 2008 with a portable camera obscura with the aim of creating experimental drawings exploring themes of absence, presence, landscape and history. Katthy Cavaliere: Day Dreams will be on exhibition at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, and the Jean Bellette Gallery, Hill End, during her residency. 

VICKY BROWN
11 April - 9 May 2008

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ROBYN SWEANEY
16 May - 13 June 2008 

Robin Sweaney‘s current practice focuses on documenting the concept of ‘home’ through painting and drawing houses in her home town of Mullumbimby on the New South Wales North Coast. Her residency in Hill End will provide the artist not only with a destination rich in vernacular architecture, but also an opportunity to respond to the journey and to explore notions of where we have come from (the familiar) and where we get to (the new). Robyn plans to respond to the outward identity of Hill End and explore whether the mythology of place influences how people live today.

Robyn is a teacher of Fine Arts at Lismore TAFE and former Co-Director of the Inc @ Piece Artist Run Exhibition Space at Mullumbimby. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, most recently Emoh Ruo at the Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney in 2007. Her work is held in the collections of the Tweed, Lismore and Grafton Regional Galleries. 

YAELI OHANA
28 June - 26 July 2008

Yaeli Ohana completed a Bachelor of Design, Visual Communication, at the University of Technology, Sydney in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute, New York City in 2002. She has held a number of solo exhibitions in Australian and overseas, as well as participating in numerous group exhibitions since 1992. Yaeli is currently a Teacher/Lecturer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and a Lecturer in Visual communication at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Having visited Hill End on many occasions, Yaeli feels a particular affinity to the atmosphere, history and mythology that surrounds the village. She plans to collect site-specific objects from the local area – neglected natural objects such as different varieties of leaves, bones, sticks etc – in order to produce a series of intricate drawings which exist as ghost-like and semi transparent elements in a landscape of washes and colour, evoking an atmosphere of Hill End as both a unique ‘place’ and ‘time’. 

DAVID TURLEY
1 August - 29 August 2008

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SCOTT MARR
7 September - 3 October 2008

Scott Marr has been exploring the traditional art of Pyrography for the past seven years. Inspired by the designs and patterns of the natural world, Marr creates textures, grooves and tactile sensations on paper and wood using traditional burning techniques. The addition of pigments sourced from sap, moss, bark, leaves, ochres and charcoal imbue Marr’s works with elements of the environment itself. During his time in Hill End, Marr aims to investigate the textures of human impacts on the environment, especially the effects of mining and to investigate the notion of ‘ambiguity as realism”. 

DEAN SEWELL & TAMARA DEAN
10 October - 7 November 2008

Following their 2005 residency, photographers Dean Sewell and Tamara Dean plan to further develop and continue their “contemporary vision of a forgotten time”. Tracing the footsteps of photographer Beaufoy Merlin who documented the township of Hill End in 1872 – 1873, Sewell and Dean will use early photographic techniques to create a comparable aesthetic to the visual effect of time and age. Current photographic equipment will be utilised to create a contemporary sense of the town, creating a body of work connecting the people of the town today with the historical context of past inhabitants.