Simryn Gill (b. 1959, Singapore) works with a wide range of methods for thinking and making, including writing, drawing, photography, printmaking, creating collections of things, altering objects and publishing. Her practice examines 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,” collecting materials and images from her immediate surroundings. By transforming these found materials and bringing new meaning to them, she generates poetic and philosophical explorations into the places that we inhabit and carry within us.

With Tom Melick, Gill runs Stolon Press, a publisher in Sydney that makes books and pamphlets, and organises occasional meals and conversations between people working in different modes and practices. Gill has had numerous solo exhibitions in institutions such as Art Gallery of New South Wales (2002, 2022), Tate Modern (2006) and Lund Konsthalle (2017). She has also participated in many international exhibitions, including the Singapore Biennale (2006), Documenta (2007, 2012), Istanbul Biennial (2011, 2022), Venice Biennale (2013) and Dhaka Art Summit (2018).