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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  38
• Lot Description:
  Simryn Gill
  (Born 1959)
  A Small Town at the Turn of the Century 5, 1999-2000
  type C photograph; edition 3/5
  image size 91cm high x 90cm wide
• Provenance:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 29 March -21 April 2001
• Notes:
  Simrym Gill was born in 1959 in Singapore, raised in Malaysia and educated in India and in England. She lives and works in Sydney and Malaysia. She works across sculpture, photography, drawing and writing. Gill represents Australia this year at the 55th Venice Biennale (1st June-24th November 2013) with her installation: Here Art Grows on Trees. 'A small town at the turn of the century' 1999-2000 is a series of 39 photographs taken by Gill in Port Dickson in Malaysia, the town where she grew up. The photographs were taken at a significant moment: the turn from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The images capture local people in local places, however each scene takes on a surreal and humorous twist - Gill has covered each of her subjects' heads with tropical fruit. Watermelons, bunches of bananas and pineapples become substitutes for heads.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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