You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead is a major solo project which envisages the artist’s tomb with the kitsch theatricality established throughout Gill’s practice to date.
Visual cultures of death, memory and consumption are explored through an immersive installation of textile-based sculpture, sound and lighting. Audiences will intermingle with a series of autobiographical wild and enigmatic characters, or ‘busts’, that breach the boundaries between the earthly and otherworldly.
Drawing heavily upon theatrical and museological conventions, Gill’s collection of funerary art transforms the gallery into a playful and richly experiential space.
You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead is informed by research into the supernatural, death and tomb art undertaken during recent international artist residencies, including a 2020 residency at The Freud Museum, London.
This project has been supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts through their Young People and the Arts Program, and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body.