Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

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

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Sydney Design Week

Across Sydney12—24 Sep

2023

Dark wooden pieces combined to make a table looking artwork

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

Exhibition

Ended 22 Oct 2023

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.