Simryn Gill: Shelter at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Richard Saltoun Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Sydney-based Malaysian artist
Simryn GILL (b. 1959). The exhibition, across photography, works on paper and sculpture,
features works from the last six years, and is curated by Catherine de Zegher, who also curated
Gill’s presentation for the Australian Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Shelter highlights the
artist’s pivotal role in contemporary ecological discourse, as seen in her recent inclusions in
Barbican’s RE/SISTERS exhibition (2023/24) and the duo exhibition The Sea is a Field at the
Singapore Art Museum (2024), and in her published works, Becoming Palm (with Michael
Taussig), Sternberg Press (2016), and Shallow (with Charles Lim), Stolon Press (2024) among
others.

One of Australia’s leading artists, Gill’s practice looks at the experience of movement and
migration through capturing fragments of everyday lives, and local microcosms, which are easily
overlooked or dismissed as mundane. She describes herself as a “maker and keeper of
records,” emphasizing her commitment to (dis)order and ephemerality in her systems and
categories of visual and material list-making. Through meticulous indexical, manual, and
record-making processes, Gill creates unlikely renditions of objects and organic matter picked
up from her immediate surroundings. She prints, glues, presses and tears these found materials
in a characteristic mode of transformation that brings new meaning to these elements.

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