Commune: Simryn Gill and Nick Croggon in conversation

Join artist Simryn Gill and art historian Nick Croggon at the State Library Victoria for a discussion on the ethics, poetics and politics of togetherness that underpin Stolon Press.

Established in 2019, Stolon Press is the Sydney-based art and publishing collective run by Simryn Gill alongside writer and editor, Tom Melick.

This program takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Stolon Press: Flat earth, MUMA, 29 May – 12 July 2025, featuring works by Elisa Taber and Khaled Sabsabi.

Biographies

Simryn Gill is an artist whose work spans photography, drawing, printing, object making and writing. Gill articulates the poetics of history, power and identity through the places and environments in which she lives and moves. With Tom Melick she runs Stolon Press, a small publisher of books and pamphlets in Sydney. In 2023 Gill's work was shown at MCA, Sydney; Barbican, London; Singapore Art Museum; Linnaen Society, London. Gill has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Singapore Biennale (2006), documenta (2007, 2012), Istanbul Biennial (2011, 2022), Venice Biennale (2013) and Dhaka Art Summit (2018), Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024).

Nick Croggon is an art historian, writer and editor based on Gadigal and Wangal land. He is Events and Programs Officer at the Power Institute and an editor at Memo Review. He recently completed a PhD in art history at Columbia University, New York.

_{A Monash Art Lecture presented by Monash University Museum of Art and Monash Fine Art}