SAMUEL JAMES
1 February - 28 February (NSW Ministry for the Arts 2004)

Sam has worked as a Theatre Designer and New Media artist for theatre, dance and performance since leaving the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1995. Before that he studied Architecture and Art Theory at the University of Adelaide. He has designed productions for most of the NSW and interstate contemporary performance and community theatre companies utilising film, video and slide projection.

Sam will be working with a small team of experienced, multidisciplinary artists to make site-specific installations using high resolution video animations and puppetry. The work aims to address the gaps left in historical archives and the potential for these gaps to be fleshed out and fictionalised.

DEAN SEWELL & TAMARA DEAN
4 March - 1 April (NSW Ministry for the Arts)

At Hill End photographers Dean and Tamara aim to create a contemporary vision of a forgotten time via a series of images which give a sense of the town and its people through the use of vivid environmental portraits, atmospheric/abstracted impressions of the environment and imaginary scenes alluding to the history of the community.

Dean Sewell began his career working as a news photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1996 Dean was based in Moscow where he covered the Russian Federal Elections, the Chechen War and other social issues. In 1999 he covered the lead-up to the East Timor elections and its violent aftermath. Dean was awarded Australian Press Photographer of the year in 1994 and 1998. In 2000 and 2002 Dean won the World Press Photo awards for his work on East Timor and the Australian Bushfires. Today Dean exhibits regularly whilst freelancing as a documentary photographer for various publications in Australia and Internationally.

Tamara Dean studied photography at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW before graduating from the University of Western Sydney with a BA in Design. She is currently a staff photographer with the Sydney Morning Herald. Tamara's work focuses around the documentation of Australian Social issues and subcultures. Her works have been exhibited at leading Australia galleries including the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), the Art Gallery of NSW and Photo Technica Gallery and she has works in the collections of the ACP, the State Library of NSW, the Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection 9 and private collections.

TONY WARBURTON
4 April - 2 May (Parks Services Division - DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT AN D CONSERVATION)

Toni Warburton has been a practising ceramicist for over 30 years. Based in Sydney she exhibits widely in Australia as well as internationally. Her work is represented in most major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria as well as private collections in Australia, Britain and India.

For Toni her residency is a chance to explore parallel strands of her work developed from looking at, being in, remembering and imagining landscapes.

These strands engage with fabricating in clay, drawing, and assembling of found objects to explore scale in relation to memory, imagination and place. The residency will allow Toni to continue working on a project with Lino Alvarez of La Paloma Pottery, Hill End begun in 2004.

HEIDRUN LOHR
6 May - 3 June (NSW Ministry for the Arts 2004)

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.

RUDI KRAUSSMAN
6 June - 4 July (NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Born in Mauerkirchen, Austria, Rudi was educated at the University of Vienna and emigrated to Australia in 1958. Now living in Sydney Rudi has had a successful career as a writer and published numerous works including collections of prose poetry, articles, anthologies, short stories and plays. His most recent publication Maps was a collection of prose poetry with artist's impressions by artist Andrew Sibley. He has also worked as an editor including editing Aspect, a highly regarded journal of art and literature from 1975 - 1987. At Hill End Rudi will escape inner city life to complete his current project, a book of prose stories entitled Figures and Actions which is being illustrated by artist Sydney/Hill End based artist John Firth-Smith.

MARNIE WARK
8 July - 5 August

A South Australian abstract painter raised in country South Australia, Marnie Wark places great importance in the tension between line and shape, form and content, simplicity and vibrancy, resulting in a never-ending exploration of the spirit of space.

At Hill End Marnie will create paintings inspired by the words "priceless characters and gleaming rewards". Looking for inspiration in the local environment and in the romance and poetry of the landscape of story derived from the hunger for heroic endeavor, as shown by the gold miners in the 1870s and later by the group of Australian artists who spent time at Hill End.

Marnie exhibits regularly within Australia and was a selected finalist in both the 2004 Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale's Vistas Art Prize, South Australia and the Metro 5 Art Award 2005, Melbourne.

KATE DORROUGH
9 September - 7 October

History is a reference point for Sydney painter Kate Dorrough and has been an ongoing source of influence for her as an artist. At Hill End Kate plans to look at the unique layers of History that surround Hill End to create organic hand built ceramic forms and paintings.

Kate completed a Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1994 and was a member of the Sydney University Archaeological Expedition drawing team to Tarone Greece. In 2004 Kate was a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery and was included in both the Salon des Refuses and the Portia Geach Memorial Art Award at S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney. Her work is represented in the collections of both Campbelltown and Grafton Regional Art Galleries. In 1999 Kate was awarded the AGNSW Denise Hickey Studio Residency, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and a Bundanoon Trust Residency. Most recently in 2003 she had a ceramic residency at Fusions Gallery in Brisbane.

MARY DOUGLAS
10 October - 7 November (Country Energy sponsored resident)

Based in Canowindra, NSW, Mary completed an Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, Western Institute of TAFE, Orange Campus in 2003. Since then her work has been exhibited widely within the region in both solo and group shows. Most recently in From this Place at Cowra Art Gallery and in the 2004 Western Area Sculptors Exhibition at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra. In 2003 she was a member of the project team and exhibiting artist for In-Site-Out a sculpture exhibition at the Botanical Gardens in Orange.

At Hill End Mary aims to immerse herself in the landscape, its symbols and how the past is integrated with and affects the present. It will be a time to focus on developing her practice and to create a new body of work.