Hill End has an intriguing history of boom, bust, abandonment and renewal, which has excited and prompted, visits from hopeful miners, speculators, artists and more, seeking fortunes in the striking landscape of the region.
So began an introduction by exhibition curator Gavin Wilson in the Education kit for the exhibition, Hill End: Art, Life and Landscape for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which toured in 1995. It was forty years earlier that Bathurst Regional Art Gallery's association with Hill End began.

Official Hill End Art website