Simryn gill biography of donald

Gill is both an avid reader and a gifted writer.

Simryn Gill's methods include photographing, drawing, collecting, altering, casting and writing.

Simyrn Gill was born in Singapore, and is based in Sydney and Malaysia.

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Simryn Gill | Paper boats

27 February – 28 March 2009

Simryn Gill Paper boats 2009 Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968 edition, dimensions variable

1968
by Souchou Yao

Simryn Gill, in her prodigious cunning, would in this exhibition insinuate us in an enterprise of labour. We don't mind, for what we are asked to do hauls us into the inner scuffle of her art and art-making, and the little paper boats we make form a scrap book, a souvenir of our happy meditation on her work. At the end of it few of us, I think, would let pass t

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Simryn Gill

In the lemon-colored twilight of a muggy, monsoon-season evening, Simryn Gill’s exhibition “Letters Home” gave rise to unsettling fancies. Mine, 2008, seemed to stir eerily. As the light danced between the work’s misshapen spheres (concocted from banana skins, mangled copper wire, electric cables, and twisted hair bands, among other scrunched-up oddments), they resembled a swirling constellation of dark suns. In the Singapore-born artist’s world, debris is laden with significance. Rampant, 1999, comprises seven black-and-white photographs, in which camphor, laurel, and bamboo plants are dressed with the garments usually worn by South Asians and Southeast Asians (i.e., lungis and sarongs). Tellingly, the images were shot in Australia, where these once Chinese plants are now firmly established. Undoubtedly, Rampant is concerned with ideas of naturalization and belonging—but the disembodied white clothes in overgrown gardens and plantations evoke ghosts making their appearance at the witching hour. We wonder if the discarded clothes appear alive because the immigrant laborers who in Australia would be most likely to have worn them are invariably doomed to restless half-lives.

“Letters Home” was Gill’s firs

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Exhibition dates: Ordinal October – 13th Dec 2009

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© Simryn Gill

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