CHARLEY LEADER
21 March - 19 April

Based in Victoria Charley Leader completed a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. The power of childhood memories from family camping trips to Hill End gave Charley the desire to return to the Village and engage with the area and the local community. A significant aspect of her practice examines the capacity for the physical characteristics of materials to convey meaning. During her residency Charley aims to create a series of new works on paper which extend on the use of materials in her practice and incorporate local renewable and discarded resources such as earth pigments, plant dyes and fragments of rocks as drawing materials. These works will develop around the allusions and associations discovered in relation to the local landscape, residents and history.

HEIDRUN LÖHR
23 April - 21 May (NSW Ministry for Arts)

Educated at the Institute of photography, Munich, Heidrun Löhr has lived and worked in Australia since 1984. She has had an impressive career as a freelance photographer creating photographic documentaries for theatre productions, performances and art events. Inspired by Hill End's rich, unique and layered history, Heidrun plans to investigate the notion of "Inside-Outside" at Hill End through a series of Black/white and colour still photographs and/or video-work.

ZUZA ZOCHOWSKI
24 May - 21 June (NSW Ministry for Arts)

An emerging Sydney artist, Zuza Zochowski graduated from Sydney college of Arts in 1999. Her work explores light in both its natural and artificial forms. In particular, she is inspired the way that the light from the broad Australian sky creates different forms, colours and textures throughout the landscape, as well as the shadows and colours created at night by both natural and artificial light sources. Zuza plans to escape the safety and "normality" of her urban environment and create a new body of work inspired by the rural landscape of Hill End.

CAROL ENDEAN LITTLE
30 July - 27 August

Carol Endean Little is a Bathurst based artist who has studied, practiced and exhibited in the region over the past ten years. She has participated in selected group exhibitions throughout Australia, her work touring in the current Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award exhibition. She was a participant in the New York Studio School Drawing Marathon held in Adelaide in January 2004. Her work explores the meanings of space; the essence of place. As a day-visitor to Hill End Carol has observed the village in all seasons. She is primarily attracted and intrigued by Hill End's wonderful quality of light. Carol will observe record and respond to this element through painting, drawing and sculpture in an attempt to evoke the inherent spirit of the place.

HENRIETTA MANNING
30 August - 27 September

Born in the UK, Henrietta studied in London and Sydney before settling in Melbourne in 1994. She discovered Hill End accidentally during a road trip in 1990. It made a huge impression. Henrietta is an artist who mainly works directly from life. While fascinated by the past, it is how it relates to the present that really interests her. At Hill End, Henrietta will create a body of work about the community of Hill End as it is today and explore the relationship between past and present through its living inhabitants.

GABRIELLE COURTENAY
1 - 29 October

Sydney based artist Gabrielle Courtenay has had twenty years experience as an artist and teacher. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and had a major exhibition in Hong Kong in 2002. Her current work is predominantly concerned with abstract qualities of organic form and visual space, specifically how the inner heart of the floral form conjures an inner space, or void, rich in mystery and beauty. Hill End will allow Gabrielle to consider a new thematic direction away from her urban base. The dramatic landscape, and particularly the marks left upon it by miners, will give her fresh material for the exploration of the void and the mythology of our attachment to the land.

CLARE MARTIN
5 November - 3 December
(NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Clare Martin is a Canberra based installation artist with a Masters in Visual Arts from Australian National University. References to heritage and the institution of the Museum have been a continuing theme in her work, particularly the relationship between heritage architecture, artefacts and memory. Clare plans to use the historic gardens of Hill End as a transition zone between the built environment and the landscape with the erection of small, ephemeral in historic buildings and their grounds. This work will be photographed and presented as a "photo album" possibly incorporating recollections and stories from the local community. In 2002 Clare was awarded a grant by Asialink for a Residency at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.