A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

Sepia photograph of the Technological Museum and a cow in the foreground

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Colour photograph of red corrugated iron building from a high vantage point

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Dark wooden pieces combined to make a table looking artwork

Powerhouse Renewal

Artist Xin Liu floating with arm outstretched against a black background. She wears a full-length grey body suit with long sleeves with bare feet and hands.

Sydney Science Festival

Across Sydney10—17 Aug

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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Program

Asymptote: Olive Gill-Hille

Name: Asymptote: Olive Gill-Hille
Start: 2023-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-22T06:00:00.000Z
Location: Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert

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when

Ended 22 Oct 2023

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Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert

Olive Gill-Hille's second solo exhibition includes a collection of often functional and always sculptural artworks crafted from ethically sourced Western Australian jarrah and she-oak. Building on the themes of her debut exhibition, Trunk, Gill-Hille's latest works explore the delicate interplay between human relationships and the natural world. The body of work highlights the fragile equilibrium of our surroundings as well as our own human connections and anatomies.

Throughout the exhibition, Gill-Hille showcases her command of sculptural form and intuitive woodwork with organic, expressive carved shapes using the textures and natural qualities of native Australian timbers sourced from already fallen trees. The reduction in logging in future years combined with the effects of deforestation mean that each work is an act of preserving and honouring this diminishing resource.

‘The old growth trees are dying, and I'm making work out of these dying trees because that’s what’s there. I'm using a material that's plentiful’

Olive Gill-Hille

Exhibitor

Olive Gill-Hille is a multidisciplinary artist and designer born in Perth, WA, in 1994. She relocated to Melbourne to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2015) specialising in sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts. During this time, she became interested in the utilitarian aspect of furniture and wanted to apply abstract and artistic concepts to practical objects. To develop skills in making, she undertook an associate degree in design (furniture) at RMIT University (2018). Gill-Hille aims to create pieces that transform furniture into involved and unconventional works of art. The designer’s experimental structures often reference the human body and adapt shapes and forms from the natural environment, developing a narrative surrounding the artworks while drawing inspiration from the material's history and her own working environment.