Simryn Gill

Clearing

Simryn Gill’s commissioned artwork for the Sydney Modern Project is a response to the removal of a tree from the Art Gallery of New South Wales campus. At the centre of this layered new work is a life-sized rubbing of the tree, a Canary Island date palm. It was planted in 1909 in a spot that was then at the cultural centre of the still-nascent city of Sydney.

On display:
South Building, lower level 2, in From Here, for Now