NetsVictoria

Exhibitions

• Cut with the kitchen knife
• Dreamweavers
• Spirit in the Land
• Jus' Drawn: The proppaNOW collective
• Past Exhibitions
  • Mary and Max: The Exhibition
  • The Stony Rises Project
  • The Shilo Project
  • Simryn Gill: Inland
    • Simryn Gill
    • Destinations
    • Project Team
  • Other side art
  • Objects to Live By / The Art of John Meade
  • Hall of Mirrors
  • How you make it
  • Loop
  • Enchanted Forest
  • Murray Cod: The biggest fish in the river
  • Come on the Scene
  • The world in painting
  • Walk

Simryn Gill: Inland is the first survey of photography by Singapore-born, Sydney and Malaysia-based artist Simryn Gill.

Simryn Gill: Inland is the most significant survey of Simryn Gill's photographic work ever presented and broadly draws upon works created over the past two decades. While photography forms a significant part of her practice, the artist does not consider herself to be a photographer. Simryn Gill: Inland embraces this conundrum as an entry point for considering Gill's artistic practice, and how photography might function more broadly as a way of engaging with the world.

This exhibition features selections from Gill's series Forest (1996-1998), Rampant (1999) and Vegetation (1999) as well as the iconic Dalam (2001). Further works include the highly personal Power station (2004) and Distance (2003-2008).

This expansive survey includes the presentation of Gill's most recent work Inland (2009), commissioned specifically for this survey with support from the Australia Council for the Arts. The work is an intimate series of hand processed Cibachromes which emerged out of a journey from northern New South Wales across to Western Australia, surveying interior images of homes she visited, while eschewing the predictable tropes of representing rural Australia.

Gill has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally including solo projects presented at Tate Modern, London, UK; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; CCA Kitakyushu, Japan; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

Developed by Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Melbourne International Arts Festival, Simryn Gill: Inland has been curated by CCP Director Naomi Cass. Selected works from Simryn Gill: Inland will tour to five regional Victorian venues in 2010 and 2011 with NETS Victoria and support from the Melbourne International Arts Festival.