JO BERTINI
17 February - 10 March

A Sydney based painter, Jo has been exhibiting throughout Australia for over ten years. Prior to this she lived, worked and exhibited in Italy and France. An avid bushwalker and kayaker, her work is inspired by the natural world and landscape. Her current work experiments with the possibility of illuminating paintings from "within" through the incorporation of different surfaces such as glass, perspex and drafting film.

FRANK MCBRIDE
14 - 28 March (supported by BRAG)

Director of the Brisbane City Gallery since 1994 and former CEO of the Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre, Frank has been researching and curating exhibitions for over 20 years. He is currently working on a major exhibition entitled Sixteen Words for Water, the genesis for which is the polarity of the Australian desert environment and the role water plays in it. Drawing on the work of sixteen contemporary Australian artists, Frank hopes to complete his research for a major publication to accompany the exhibition while in Hill End.

DAMIAN MOSS
31 March - 28 April(funded by NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Casual lecturer in painting and drawing at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, Damian has been exhibiting in Sydney since 1987. He is currently working towards his third solo exhibition at the Tim Olsen Gallery. Inspired by traditional Japanese and Chinese painting, he relates themes of impermanence and transcience, the void, simplicity and intimacy to contemporary landscape painting. A new series of drawings will be based on visual and metaphorical interpretations of the unique linear quality of Hill End's landscape.

JULIE -ANN LONG
2 May - 6 June (funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Freelance choreographer and dance artist, Julie-Ann Long is a former Director of the celebrated One Extra Company. Inspired by the acrobatics display of the Shaolin monks and Jeffrey Smart's painting The Picnic (Nun's Picnic) 1957, Julie-Ann is working on a new solo performance project with the support of a grant from the NSW Ministry for the Arts Dance Fund. The proposed work, The Nun's Picnic will be a joint collaboration between choreographer/performer Julie-Ann Long, painter Lucy Culliton, film-maker Samuel James and photographer Heidrun Lohr. Themes of shifting identity, transportation and transformation will guide the work.

XAVIER MODOUX
11 July - 8 August

A Swiss trained ceramicist, Xavier Modoux coordinated the "Ateliers Ceramique de Carouge" (1998-2001), a unique project designed to nurture both professional ceramicists and the relationship beween ceramics and the public. Modoux himself has exhibited throughout Europe, Japan and Korea and has collaborated with some of the world's leading ceramicists. He is now living and working in Australia and is keen to produce objects in relation to natural resources found in Australian landscapes such as Hill End.

RACHEL FAIRFAX
11 August - 8 Sept

 
An emerging Sydney artist, Rachel completed her Honours year at the National Art School last year. Her work focussed on studies of trees and met with considerable success, with seven drawings purchased for the new Xavier Wing of St Vincent's Private Hospital. Rachel is a disciplined and dedicated artist with a passion for the natural world. She plans to immerse herself in painting the landscapes of Hill End.

FIONA HISCOCK
15 Sept - 29 Sept (supported by BRAG)

 
A Melbourne based ceramic artist, Fiona completed postgraduate studies in ceramics at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1983. Fiona found early inspiration in domestic objects such as water pitchers and washing bowls, from this she hand built large-scale decorative vessels. One method Fiona has been developing is transferring watercolour paintings of botanical subject matter on to ceramic surfaces. Her work in Hill End will follow on from her 2002 residency which focussed on painting and drawing the blossoming stages of plants in and around the village.

CATHERINE ROGERS
3 - 31 October

A practicing photographic artist for thirty years, Catherine recently completed a PhD in Communications and media from the University of Western Sydney. She has lectured in photography in a number of Australian Universities and is widely published, exhibited and collected. Catherine's work focuses primarily on landscape, using both conventional and unconventional methods to record and evoke the variety of the Australian physical landscape.

RAY CROOKE
3 - 17 November (supported by BRAG)

Born in 1922, Ray Crooke's preliminary studies at the Swinburne Technical College were interrupted by army service. After the war, Crooke spent two years on Thursday Island. His depictions of island life won him wide popularity. He served as official war artist in Vietnam from 1966 and won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with his depiction of writer George Johnston. His works have been exhibited widely with major Australian Galleries.

DR ANNETTE IGGULDEN
21 Nov - 19 Dec (funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts)

A Melbourne based artist, Annette completed a PhD in Visual Arts from Deakin University last year. Interested in honouring and commemorating the role that women have played in history, Annette's work attempts to reinterpret historical texts from the perspective of a contemporary Australian woman artist. Annette's work explores verbal and visual language and attempts to "rewrite" the experiences of contemporary and historical woman by transferring women's silence into a visual language. From Hill End, she hopes to draw upon her own experiences as well as respond to the little documented lives of women who have lived in Hill End.

YVONNE BOAG
3 - 27 January 2004 (funded NSW Ministry for the Arts)

An artist with a 25 year exhibition history, Yvonne has exhibited widely both overseas and in Australia. She has lived and worked in Scotland, France, Japan and Korea, and most recently in an Aboriginal Community in Cape York Peninsula. Her interest in mapping the place and culture of an environment, combined with her strong geometric abstract landscapes, will provide an interesting comparison to previous interpretations of the Hill End landscape.