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A group show inspired by Gough Whitlam’s two landmark speeches evokes the progressive spirit of the early ’70s

An exhibition featuring a major new photographic series of the interiors of Malaysian homes, plus a selection of works from the last ten years in which Gill explores a sense of place and the intertwining themes of culture and nature.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue; http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2002/simryn_gill (14/10/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Simryn Gill: selected work. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
ISBN 0 7347 6334 4

A suite of forty photographs [C-type, made over 1999 and 2000] detail life and leisure – via portraits in-situ, in Malaysia. Masking head-gear of exotic fruit the subjects faces in each photograph is the artists own family and friends and relations, from home town Port Dickson on the west coast of Malaysia.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/publish/broadsheet/BS_v31no4/bs_10.pdf (01/12/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Gill, Simryn, A small town at the turn of the century. Perth, W.A.: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts,2001
1 folded sheet (19 p.) :col. ill. ; 30cm.

Simryn Gill’s first three photoseries, invoking humankind’s close relationship to the plant world. In 'Vegetation’ the artist took the guise of a variety of plant species local to the landscape in which the images were photographed.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Two artists were invited to make work for the South Australian Museum and were given access to collections of the Museum. Works that looked at, and experimented with, ideas of how we structured and make sense of the world; concerned with questioning and illuminating the ways that we read meanings into individual objects and how we place them in structures that, in turn, generate meanings.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

A knitted a matinee jacket, a bonnet and bootees, and made a rattle/teething ring from thin metal strips cut from Coke cans. The six pack of Coke cans onto which rubber nipples were attached referring to how Coca-cola, originally used traditional drugs, the South American cocoa leaf and the African cola nut. As well as being a sign of consumer capitalism Coke was also used as a post-coital contraceptive douche in Third World countries in which the artist clearly pointed to.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002;
http://stephanieradok.com/writing/000034.shtml