Tarryn Gill is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boorloo / Perth, Western Australia, working across sculpture, installation, photography, film, drawing, performance and design for theatre. Psychological ideas & archetypes have long played a role in Gill’s work, whereby art-making is used as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious, personal and collective, contemporary and ancient. Gill’s aesthetics, materials and processes are informed by her background in dance and competitive Calisthenics from the age of 5 to 25 and she draws upon this source material to create works that assert the power and value of feminine, personal and intuitive against the masculine model of genius that has defined much of art history.
Through her solo and collaborative practices, Gill has exhibited works and undertaken residency projects across Australia, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2020, Gill was commissioned by the Fremantle Arts Centre & DLGSC for the exhibition Bodywork, creating three large-scale works, Limber 1, Limber 2 and Limber 3. These works were acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and presented in The View From Here, a 2021 survey of contemporary art from WA. A series of subsequent works were presented in 2021 in her first Sydney solo exhibition Dream State, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. That year Gill also won the Acquisitive Invitation Art Award 15 Artists with a reclining figure Limber (Bather). In 2023, Gill exhibited in Portrait 23: Identity, National Portrait Gallery and was awarded the prestigious Lester Prize for her work Limber (self-portrait in relief). In 2024, Gill was included in Hair Pieces at Heidi Museum of Modern Art, presented her second solo exhibition at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Soft, and was featured in the major survey exhibition, Radical Textiles, Art Gallery South Australia.
