Gillian Kayrooz

Board Member

Gillian Kayrooz is an artist whose practice reflects both her personal experience of and ongoing engagement with the local personas, neighbourhoods, cultural motifs and movements of Western Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2018 she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region. She most recently completed residencies at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts and the Sapporo Tenjinyama Artist Studio, ARTnSHELTER, Tokyo. In 2020 she presented her solo exhibition Argileh at Wedding Cake Rock at Firstdraft, and is a 2021 Studio Artist at Parramatta Artists’ Studios.