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      <image:title>New Paintings</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Privacy (two black feathers boxed together), oil on linen 30.5x38cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bibliography: This is Not a Surrealism - A Manifesto for and against the Simulcara of Surrealism, Sydney: Apothecary Archive Publishing, 2024. “Ontological Withdrawal and the Symbols of Symbolism” Senzacornice - Rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica, 23 “Simbolo”, Nov 2020 - Feb 2021. Studies: Hunter’s Dog</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - this is not a surrealism - a manifesto for and against the simulacra of surrealism</image:title>
      <image:caption>Booklet, 70 pages with black and white illustrations, $25. https://apothecaryarchive.com/the-apothecary-archive-press-1/this-is-not-a-surrealism-by-simon-weir In recognition of a preoccupation with the problems of the simulacra, there are increasingly images of images The appearance and disappearance of images. And all of this occurring while an urge towards dwelling can be recognised in the construction of space and forms of covering and shelter.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Lecture: "Surrealism's Slippery Surface"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Why is Surrealism So Slippery ? Join Surrealism scholar Simon Weir for an engaging exploration of Surrealism’s profound philosophical and psychological dimensions. We’ll trace how André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and especially René Magritte advanced automatism from its roots in spiritualism to a powerful means of accessing the unconscious, shifting from physical techniques like automatic writing toward deeper psychological insights that could be communicated through text, image, object, cinema and architecture. This program is proudly sponsored by Bendigo Community Bank Mosman, the Mosman Art Gallery 2025 EOFY campaign and the Mosman Art Gala Education Fund Watch the talk on YouTube : https://youtu.be/G1harwdRPgo?si=lC1hqmMDPweowg7j</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Art Appreciation Lecture Salvador Dalí: painting the unconscious Discover how Salvador Dalí transformed the unconscious into art. Dalí’s extraordinary technique turned dreams, phantoms, and irrational objects into luminous visions. Drawing on his own writings, including 50 Secrets of Magical Craftsmanship, this lecture reveals how Dalí fused reason with delusion, and observation with invention, to make visible the mechanics of thought itself. Art Gallery of NSW  Wednesday 17 June 2026, 6–7pm Thursday 18 June 2026, 1–2pm Tickets on AGNSW Websise</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Bondi Shelter, oil on linen, 102x76cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Live, oil on linen, 203x107cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Mannequin (Spectral Apparition), oil on linen,  80x100cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Ecologies of Inception, oil on linen,  46x60cm, 80x100cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>One evening I was retiring in bed looking across the room at my painting, “Melancholy of the Moment (Ecologies of inception), and I instantaneously imagined that painting painted onto an egg. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYtSInGhnwi/?igsh=MXhlN3BmdjAxdjNyeA==</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Anecdote as superposition, oil on linen, diptych  66x107cm and 51x40.6cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Melancholy of the Moment (Ecologies of inception), oil on linen, 46x60cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>Named after Simone Ferracina’s book.  Salon des Refusé: 2025 “Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award” Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Coffee and catastrophe, oil on linen, 107x132cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Passing of a Seaplane (The feeling of voluntary surrender prompted by the passing of a Seaplane), oil on linen 107x132cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Strange Memory, oil and collage on linen, 38x30.5cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Sensual Ontographic Assemblage, oil on linen 30.5x40cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Portrait as a collection of objects, as an interrelationship between active personalities, concrete objects, some confusions, and some illusions. + Exhibitions: 2023, “SUPRA: 100 Years of Global Connections” International Student Lounge, The University of Sydney, NSW. Finalist: 2020 “Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award” Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD. Finalist: 2020 “Collie Art Prize” Collie Art Gallery, Collie WA. + Prints Available: https://www.pineapplegallery.com.au/buy-prints/simon-weir-sensual-ontographic-assemblage-portrait-of-my-wife/ Studies: Electrolyte Requiem.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - The Architectural Uncanny, oil on linen on board 35x27cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Architectural Uncanny is a transitional painting, and return to dream-oriented, unconsciously figured, inspirationally motivated, Surrealism. Drawn in a Catalan cafe over 5 days, then painted with great intensity in two sessions one on Figueres then one in Sydney three years later. It depicts an unconscious, multi-generational, romantic idealisation in the appearance of four people, uncanny architecture, public sculpture and distant landscape.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Imaginary Magpie, oil on linen 30.5x40.6  (private collection)</image:title>
      <image:caption>The shadows we cast onto our landscapes, and the spectres that seem so real but defy validation. We live in both the real and the imaginary. The painting in the painting exists as a separate study - see here. + Exhibitions: Finalist: 2022 “Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award”, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD. Shortlist, 2021 “Into the Light”, Whitewall Art Prize, Berrima NSW. Painting recoloured 2022.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - "No Mooring" (Romantic Freedom), oil on linen 107x132cm (private collection)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Featured in Talking with Painters "Entrants to the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes talk with Maria Stoljar" (YouTube)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Privacy (with Mama Conducting the Fish), oil on linen 30.5x38cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Blackfeather Sanctuary, oil on linen 30.5x40.6cm  (private collection)</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the infra-realism of object-oriented ontology, reality is withdrawn behind the sensual. Art’s sensual objects have conscious and unconscious qualities that generate convincing illusions of impossible objects. When the subject of art is the withdrawn real, we see concealing veils. The Blackfeather Sanctuary is celebrated and elevated while remaining withdrawn, veiled, decoyed, tended and guarded. + Exhibitions: Finalist: 2021 “Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award”, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD. Bibliography: “Ontological Withdrawal and the Symbols of Symbolism” Senzacornice - Rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica, 23 “Simbolo”, Nov 2020 - Feb 2021. “Object Oriented Ontology and Architectural Darkness”  Odyssey, Harvest, Sydney, 2021, pp.148-151.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Spectre Cluster on the Wharf, oil on linen 30.5x40.6cm (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Desire Changing The Appearance of the World, oil on linen,  (private collection)</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this artwork we encounter a “painting within a painting.” Normally, when we look at a realistic painting on a wall, the image inside the frame provides contrast to the real world around us, making our reality feel more solid in contrast to the image’s fictional or abstract or theatrical world. The real world is one of the measures by which we assess the painting’s depicted world. However, in this piece, the small easel painting flips that logic. Here, the “meta-painting” inside the scene also borrows reality from its surroundings. Yet while the background satisfies our scenic sensibility, many of the details defy logic; it is an untrustworthy source of verification. In other words, the form makes us value the painted world inside the painting as if it holds its own layer of truth, a core layer, separate from context, more focussed and animating than the visible context, reversing the usual relationship between art and reality.  Consequently, it is a painting that encourages you to look away from everyday reality, and focus on reaching the pink vision.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - The bard, oil on linen 32"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - Indeterminate image, oil on linen, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - Snakes entering a fanily of rocks, oil on paper, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - Suggestion Box (Twilight of the Idol), oil on linen 25x35cm, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - Smoking Tree, oil on linen 10"x10", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 1995-1999 - Labour of Love (Which ever way you throw me, I will stand), oil on linen 28"x20", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Sky painting again, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sky painting again is the key work in this series conceptually, if not formally. It is a picture of the view from a road, on the journey home. The same power lines and the same trees making their way through the seasons again, a little taller. The title is inspired by the titles in some of Bob Dylan's 1960's songs, Absolutely Sweet Marie, and Obviously 5 Believers, and Approximately Queen Jane. The again in Sky painting again hints at a disappointment in the exhaustingly dull repetitiveness of daily life, the tedium of so many duties towards so many things, and the obvious spiritual advantage in finding beauty and wonder and complexity in everyday experiences. This affective dimension of the pictures in this series is combined here with a remark about the dull repetitive stupidity of even this task, of the low level of expectations we have for ourselves if we find that art aims merely at reminding us of this simple truth, and so this painting is also a kind of lament about low expectations, and the depravity of simplicity. This image appeared in another painting a decade later - see here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Wind born, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Exhibitions: Finalist: Clouds3, Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle, NSW Finalist: Salon 21, Aarwun Gallery, Gold Creek, Canberra, ACT.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Esperence, 1 degree, oil on linen 42"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Electrolyte Requiem, oil on linen 32"x12"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shining optimism in darkness. This reappeared in a painting a decade later - see here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Erosion and rain, oil on linen 32"x12"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Exhibitions: Finalist: Salon 21, Aarwun Gallery, Gold Creek, Canberra, ACT.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Lichen, oil on copper 40x30cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Mint,  oil on copper 40x30cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Chair, oil on linen 50x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Waterfall, oil on linen, 42”x60”, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Yellow Sunset, oil on masonite 40x20cm, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Landscape Studies - Tarn, oil on masonite 40x20cm,, private collection</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2024-09-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figure on a stoney beach</image:title>
      <image:caption>Appears in: Vicarious Self-Portrait</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a38c974aeb62568136c1154/1513672955849-5LL4ID3Q9D94LN69U4CD/Figure+in+a+landscepe.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figure on a stoney beach</image:title>
      <image:caption>Appears in: Vicarious Self-Portrait</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Hunter's Dog</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bibliography: This is Not a Surrealism - A Manifesto for and against the Simulcara of Surrealism, Sydney: Apothecary Archive Publishing, 2024. This set of sculptures is heavily influenced by Picasso's 1930s Surrealist An Anatomy drawings, but more generally the aesthetic of  sculptural assembly of sanded, curved, tree branches onto which I added hands and feet registering spontaneous anthropomorphism. Uniquely in this series, Hunter's Dog, included a large range of symbolic objects. Appears in: two black feathers boxed together</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Couple yoked on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figures Fruiting (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a38c974aeb62568136c1154/1513673275648-H0VT0M8AEBI4ECFCCDDP/reclining+figure+on+a+beach.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figure reclining on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Couple on a Beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Played (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Seaside</image:title>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a38c974aeb62568136c1154/1513814469739-NHJZ0WWX8XQFP0DSLN8F/Figure+in+a+misty+landscape.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figure in a misty landscape</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Family</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Woman with dog</image:title>
      <image:caption>The similarity to Dali is most clear here, both the the use of "painter's plastic" sculpturing material that emerges when your colour spontaneously drawn shapes, but also in the landscape as this figure is on a stony beach in Cadaques. Images of the landscape around Dali's homes in, Cadaques, Port Lligat and Figueres, where I have been many times, occupy my imagination.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Figure in a misty landscape</image:title>
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      <image:title>Watercolours of Sculptural Figures - Couple on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - "Everytime I close my eyes, I see through what the light disguises" oil on masonite 64x44cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - "Everytime I close my eyes, I see through what the light disguises" oil on masonite 64x44cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Presentation, oil on masonite 38x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Presentations, oil on masonite, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Arrivals, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Pan and Tmolus, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Pan, Midas and Tmolus, oil on copper 15x10cm</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Mercury and Argus, oil on linen on board 30x20cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Elemental, oil on masonite, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Bard 2, oil on copper, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - The Bard, oil on copper 30x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Trance, oil on copper 60x25cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Indeterminate Image, oil on linen</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Mercury and Argus, oil on copper 30x20cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Surreal Paintings 2000-2010 - Presentation, oil on board</image:title>
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