Simryn Gill

Simryn Gill is interested in how we understand our place in the world, and each other, through things.

Since the early 1990s, she has translated a wide array of materials, objects and sites into artworks that question time, history, place and the micro politics of daily life.

By photographing, casting, collecting, tearing and arranging things she has found, bought, and been given, Gill opens up the operations of material culture and explores the ways that meaning transforms and translates into different contexts.

This publication is the first monograph to be published on this significant artist, whose subtle, humorous and powerful