Artist Statement
My work is concerned with a photographic investigation of the space of the crowd. Images have ranged from exploring the crowd’s dark matter to a utopian ideal of liberation and the temporary dissolving of barriers between people. This has involved images of crowds captured in motion, unaware of the camera’s presence as well as large-scale orchestrated gatherings of communities in specific locations, involving many associates and large-scale collaborations with the public. The work is centered upon an idea of a contrasting and oscillating space between the personal and the public, the individual and the collective and the impact of these fluid definitions on architecture, portraiture and the photograph.

 

 

Born Melbourne, lives and works London. Simon Terrill has exhibited widely since 1998. His most recent solo exhibitions include Crowd Theory Adelaide, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, 2013; Tilt, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 2013; The Balfron Project, Erno Goldfinger Museum, 2 Willow Road, London, 2012 & The Nunnery Gallery, London, 2011. Recent group exhibitions include Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2012; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, 2011; Contemporary
Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2010; Photo-­ID, Contemporary Art Norwich,
2009. Terrill was awarded the Acme Studios' Bow Cross Residency London in 2010 and the Anne and
Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2007. His works are held in public
and private collections in Australia and the UK.