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Curated by Catherine de Zegher, the exhibition foregrounds Gill’s pivotal role in contemporary ecological discourse through themes of movement, migration, shelter, and the entanglement of human and non-human worlds. Highlighted series include the Shelter photographic works, Thistles and Friends, Naga Doodles, and the necklace works Pearls, alongside curatorial and artist-driven approaches to record-making and material transformation.","PRESS RELEASE  \nSimryn Gill: Shelter  \nCurated by Catherine de Zegher  \n20 September-2 November 2024  \nOpening reception: Friday, 20 September | 6-8pm  \nIn-conversation with Simryn Gill, Catherine de Zegher & Mark Rappolt: 21 September | 2-3pm  \nInterior, Shelter series, 2024  \n“Gill’s work reaches beyond the dichotomy of the epic and the everyday, of nature and culture, and is embedded in the consciousness of transcending this fundamental separation. Hers is a  \nworld of shared being, of another understanding of the differences among the multitude of living creatures, human and non-human (...)”  \n- Catherine de Zegher, Simryn Gill: shell shelter sphere, 2024  \nRichard 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.  \nOne 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.  \nExhibition highlights include Gill’s recently printed series of photographs entitled Shelter, taken of the exteriors and interiors of various houses in rural Australia and Malaysia. As de Zegher points out in her curatorial text, the artist’s work “has always been in some way involved with shelter. ( ... ) As an enquiry of our ontological situation, Gill has made pictures of an outside that holds inner worlds, and of an inside that draws you out: Shelter with its frontal views of apparently idyllic rural houses in the outback—often overwhelmed by encroaching tropic vegetation, sometimes in vibrant colours, other times disquieting in the darkening light—and with its shaded interiors of kitchen tables or writing desks.”  \nAdditional highlights include Gill’s distinctive ink rubbings on paper; the series Thistles and Friends (2024) and Naga Doodles (2017) . As de Zegher poignantly writes, these works propose an “alternative approach of the relation between nature and society. Armed with camera, enlarger, ink and paper, Gill’s is indeed a reflective practice: in tracing the matter of thistles, considered as invasive plants in Australia and cursed by many, she asks pointedly, ‘how did they get here’? Of course, the seeds may probably have been in the wool of sheep imported from Scotland by settlers. In the end, we are responsible for what we do, and have done, to the land, to the planet.”  \nIn Naga Doodles, Gill transfers the intricacies of snakeskin patterns onto paper from roadkill snakes collected in the vicinity of her home in Malaysia. She inks and flattens the carcasses, covering them with paper to capture their detailed impressions before burying the snakes in her garden. The series title draws from Sanskrit and Malay references to revered serpent deities in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. 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