SIMULACRA OF SURREALISM
MANIFESTO
this is not a surrealism:
A Manifesto For and Against the Simulacra of Surrealism,
Apothecary Archive: Sydney, 2024 [link]
RESPONSE TO ANDRÉ BRETON
Weir, S. (2024) “The Responses: Simon Weir”
In Bauduin, T. M., Susik, A., Shehu-Ansell, R. Eds. A., Magic Art Redux, Fulgur Press, London, 74-77, 91. [link]
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Simon Weir - Sydney Surrealist” 2024
Disorder Gallery, Sydney
“On the Softness of Meaning” 2012
Barthe House Gallery, Sydney
“Summer Horizons” 2004
Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
“Everytime I Close My Eyes” 2003
Global Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
“Lures,” “Trio for Violin, Cello & Flute,” 200
Albert St Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
“Waterfall” 1999
Coventry Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
“The Bard” 1998
Coventry Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
"One Tree Forest” 1997
Youen Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“St Vincent’s College Art Exhibition” 2025
St Vincent’s College, Sydney
“Clouds 3” 2024
Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle, NSW.
“SUPRA: 100 Years of Global Connections” 2023
International Student Lounge, The University of Sydney, NSW.
“Lethbridge Small Art Prize” 2022.
Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, QLD.
“Salon 21" 2021
Aarwun Gallery, Canberra, ACT.
“Lethbridge Small Art Prize” 2021
Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, QLD.
”Lethbridge Small Art Prize” 2020
Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, QLD.
“Collie Art Prize” 2020
Collie Art Gallery, Collie, WA.
“Exquisite Corpse Stereotomy” Weir, S., Egorova, E., Wozniak-O’Connor, D., Watt, R., Masuda, R. 2019
Sydney Design Festival, Sydney, NSW.
“Centenary Exhibition” Weir, S., Egorova, E., Wozniak-O’Connor, D., Watt, R., Masuda, R. 2018
Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
“A Room An Eye” Anderson, R., Akahane O’Bryen, S., Weir, S. 2013
Expanded Architecture, The Rocks, NSW.
“After Images” Japanese earthquake benefit exhibition, 2011
Boutwell-Draper Gallery, Redfern, NSW.
“Elevation” Phillip Cox Australian Pavilion. Heneghan, T., Weir, S., Dzonlagic, H., Seyama, S. 2008
Venice Architectural Bienale, Venezia, Italy.
”Directory” 2000
Obscura Gallery, Sydney NSW.
“Diary Show” 1999
Coventry Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
“Diary Show” 1998
Coventry Gallery, Paddington, NSW.
“Australian Connection - Abbaye de la Foret” 1996
Youen Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
PUBLIC LECTURES
Coming Soon
“Salvador Dalí: Painting the Unconscious”
Art Appreciation Lecture.
The Art Gallery of NSW 2026
“This is not surrealism: Magritte’s manifesto and late work”
Learning Curve Series- René Magritte: The Treachery of Images.
The Art Gallery of NSW 2024 [link]
“Mystery de facto: Magritte’s surrealist objects”
Learning Curve Series- René Magritte: The Treachery of Images.
The Art Gallery of NSW 2024 [link]
“Surrealism’s Centenary”
At the exhibition opening: “The Impossibility of the Real”
CBD Gallery, 2024 Sydney
INTERVIEWS
“Book: this is not a surrealism”
Arts - Friday, Fri 1st Nov 2024
89.7FM East Side Radio, Sydney [link]
“this is not a surrealism”
Art Club, Fri 15 Nov 2024
Comber St Gallery, Sydney
“Artists entering the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes talk with Maria Stoljar”
Talking with Painters, 2024
www.youtube.com/@TalkingwithPainters
“Q&A Simon Weir”
Look Magazine, Winter 2024
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
CONFERENCE PRESENTAIONS
Weir, S. (2023) “Venus with a Lion’s Head: Magritte & Dalí, 1939"
Surrealisms: ISSS Surrealisms 2023, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas.
Weir, S. (2022) “Surrealist Ontographies; On Soft Watches as Ontographic Objects"
Surrealisms: ISSS Surrealisms 2022,
Weir, S. (2021) “Crisalida - Surreal, Therapeutic, Anti-constructionalist Paranoiac-Critical Architecture”
Surrealisms: ISSS Surrealisms 2021,
Weir, S. (2019) “Masochistic Ensemble: Salvador Dali against Le Corbusier”
Surrealisms: ISSS Surrealisms 2019, University of Exeter..
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Weir, S., Rich, S. (2024) “Shipwreck Architecture”
Footprint - Delft Architecture Theory Journal, 31, 51-65. [link]
Weir, S. (2023) “Domestic hybrids: Vitruvius’ Xenia, the Surrealist’s Minotaure and Shrigley’s Octopus”
Open Philosophy: Hybrid Domesticities, 6, 1-12. [link]
Santamaria de Mingo, V., Weir, S. (2023) "What Dalí Owes La Nature”
Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-21. [link]
Weir, S. (2022) “Surrealist Architecture: Dalí’s 1958 Crisalida, San Francisco”
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, 13(1), 112-131. [link]
Weir, S. (2022) “Salvador Dalí in Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York”
The Journal of Architecture, 27(2-3), 398-419. [link]
Weir, S., Hill, G. (2021) "Making Space for Degenerate Thinking: Revaluing Architecture with Friedrich Nietzsche”
ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(2), 125-132. [link]
Weir, S. (2020) “Ontological Withdrawal and the Symbols of Symbolism”
Senzacornice, Rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica, 23, [link]
Weir, S., Wozniak-O'Connor, D., Watt, R., Reinhardt, D., Fernando, S., Dibbs, J. (2018) "Design and Fabrication of a Ruled Surface Vault with the Exquisite Corpse"
Nexus Network Journal, 20(3), 723-740.
Weir, S. (2012) “Paranoiac Critical Interiorisations”
IDEA Journal, Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association, 2012, 60-71. [link]
BOOK CHAPTERS
Weir, S. (2025) “Perspective/s of Architecture: From Drawing to AI”
In: Lloyd Rees and the Architecte, And Also Press, Brisbane, 212-222. [link]
Weir, S. (2018) “Salvador Dali’s Interiors with Heraclitus’ Concealment”
In: Interior Architecture Theory Reader, Routledge, New York, 195-201. [link]
Weir, S. (2012) “On the Edibility of Theatres”
In: Youtopia – A Passion for the Dark, Project Freerange, Melbourne, 35-42.
POETRY
Weir, S. (2024) “Reflections on Heraclitus”
In: Stretch, A. Ed. Future Movement,
Gaffa Gallery and Poetry Sydney: Sydney, n.p.