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‘Mood Work’: Genevieve Carroll, Hill End Artist
Art Architecture & Design, Travel Practicalities Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil Art Architecture & Design, Travel Practicalities Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil

‘Mood Work’: Genevieve Carroll, Hill End Artist

You arrive in the township of Hill End, New South Wales, from either Bathurst, Sofala or Mudgee. Each road is different, but all are dramatic, winding, and mountainous. Cliffs of yellowish, primeval rock appear as you wind up the hills, the type of moonscape that must have surprised the artist-visitors who came here from Sydney in the 1940s in search of peace and inspiration.

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