Sam Paine is a Councillor for the Mid-Western Regional Council and is also a journalist, artist and performer. Sam grew up in Mudgee and exhibits his art throughout the region and creates illustration work for clients across NSW. Sam has been a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize and Little Things Art Prize. Sam has illustrated live for events such as City of Sydney’s Late Night Library and the Mudgee Readers’ Festival, and created a number of large scale public artworks, including murals in Mudgee, Gulgong and Dubbo and in the Australia Council window in Surry Hills.

Cameron Anderson is a local, award-winning architect with a strong focus on innovation and sustainable design. Cameron’s architecture business, CAARCH, services the Central West and creates both small and large-scale residential and commercial projects.