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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. See it framed here: Studies: Hunter’s Dog</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Ecologies of inception, oil on linen, 46x60cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Ecologies of Inception, oil on linen,  80x100cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Invisibility, oil on linen on board 27x35cm</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 - 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 (Shipwreck Theatre), 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 - Inland Memory, oil and collage on linen, 38x30.5cm</image:title>
      <image:caption>See it framed here</image:caption>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Privacy (two black feathers boxed together), oil on linen 30.5x38cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Sensual Ontographic Assemblage, oil on linen 30.5x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - The Architectural Uncanny, oil on linen on board 35x27cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Imaginary Magpie, oil on linen 30.5x40.6  (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - "No Mooring" (Romantic Freedom), oil on linen 107x132cm (private collection)</image:title>
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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>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Environmental Paradox, oil on copper 30x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Blackfeather Sanctuary, oil on linen 30.5x40.6cm  (private collection)</image:title>
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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 - Anecdote as superposition, oil on linen, diptych  66x107cm and 51x40.6cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>New Paintings - Trial By Association, oil on linen, 40x50cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The bard, oil on linen 32"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The bard, oil on linen 32"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Indeterminate image, oil on linen, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - 99% Myth-Free, oil on linen, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - 99% Myth-Free, oil on linen 34"x24"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The rhinoceros horn, oil on linen 18"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The Disintegration of a Pear, oil on copper 40x30cm, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Reservations, oil on linen 24"x32", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Snakes entering a fanily of rocks, oil on paper, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - 99% Myth-Free, oil on linen 36"x42", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Monkey, oil on linen 14"x28"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Three ways of looking at time, oil on linen 12"x16", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Suggestion Box (Twilight of the Idol), oil on linen 25x35cm, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Smoking Tree, oil on linen 10"x10", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Feeding the birds, oil on canvas, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Maternity, oil on linen 26"x32", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Lion and Shadow, oil on paper, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - River Guide, oil on linen 24"x18", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The evolution of man, oil on linen, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  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>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Trance, oil on copper 60x25cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Mercury and Argus, oil on linen on board 30x20cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Mercury and Argus, oil on copper 30x20cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - The Search for Enough, oil on canvas, 92x122cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  1995-1999 - Portrait of Brett Whiteley, oil on canvas, 92x122cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Valla North Beach (dream painting with no visible dream signifiers), oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Valla North Beach (dream painting with no visible dream signifiers), oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Jacaranda, oil on linen 42"x42", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Jacaranda, oil on linen 24"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - 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>Painting Archive:  Landscape - 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>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Esperence, 1 degree, oil on linen 42"x26", private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - 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>Painting Archive:  Landscape - 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>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Lichen, oil on copper 40x30cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Mint,  oil on copper 40x30cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Chair, oil on linen 50x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Waterfall, oil on linen, 42”x60”, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Yellow Sunset, oil on masonite 40x20cm, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive:  Landscape - Tarn, oil on masonite 40x20cm,, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Figure on a stoney beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - 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: Privacy</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Couple yoked on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Figures Fruiting (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Figure reclining on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Played (private collection)</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Seaside</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Figure in a misty landscape</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Family</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: Sculpture - 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>Painting Archive: Sculpture - Couple on a pebbly beach</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - The Bard, oil on copper 30x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 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>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Bard 2, oil on copper, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Elemental, oil on masonite, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Presentation, oil on masonite 38x40cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Presentations, oil on masonite, private collection</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Arrivals, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Pan and Tmolus, oil on linen 32"x26"</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Tmolus</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pan, Midas and Tmolus, oil on copper 15x10cm</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Indeterminate Image, oil on linen, 32x68cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Yellow Ribbon, Oil on linen, 22x22cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Boat People, oil on board, 12z20cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>Painting Archive: 2000-2010 - Gold Trio, OIl on linen, 40x50cm</image:title>
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      <image:title>About - SIMON WEIR</image:title>
      <image:caption>Simon Weir is an Australian painter and scholar whose work brings architecture, landscape, objects and memory into precise but improbable relationships. His paintings present lucid worlds in which familiar things behave strangely without losing their material conviction. Buildings become containers, stages or memories; landscapes hold objects that seem simultaneously to belong and not belong; images appear within other images; and recurring forms such as eggs create thresholds between different places, scales and realities. The paintings are carefully constructed, but their logic is not always fully explicable. They aim for the peculiar moment when an unfamiliar image nevertheless feels convincing, necessary or already known. Weir is interested in the interval between perception and interpretation: the point at which something can be recognised before it can be explained. His work uses the precision and illusionistic power of painting to give imagined events the presence of observed reality. Surrealism is an important lineage within this practice, but not a stylistic category. Weir approaches it as an ongoing method for discovering images, testing relationships between things, and allowing thought to emerge through visual experience rather than precede it. Alongside his studio practice, Weir researches the history and theory of Surrealism, with particular expertise in Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. His scholarship examines relationships between images, objects, perception, architecture and thought. In 2026 he is based in Figueres, Spain, as a Research Fellow at the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, serves on the editorial collective of the International Journal of Surrealism, and is a member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism. He has presented public lectures on Surrealism and modern art for the Art Gallery of New South Wales and other cultural institutions. Contacts email@simonweir.net INSTAGRAM simon_weir</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Lectures &amp; Talks - Upcoming Tour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Explore the architectural traditions of Scandinavia focusing on the life and legacy of Jørn Utzon and his contemporaries, tracing the ideas that shaped some of the 20th century’s most significant buildings. Contact Renaissance Tours.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Lectures &amp; Talks - Upcoming Lecture</image:title>
      <image:caption>New lecture “Passages through the Unconscious” on Salvador Dalí and Architecture to be held here at the Gala-Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, 1 October 202, 17:15pm</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Art Gallery of NSW 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 Recording Available on AGNSW Members Website</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Art Lecture: Surrealism’s Slippery Surface 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. https://mosmanartgallery.org.au/event/art-lecture/</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Learning Curve Lectures René Magritte: The Treachery of Images The Art Gallery of NSW, November 2024. Sold Out Lectures Now on Youtube ! Watch Lecture Part 1 Watch Lecture Part 2 Listen: Interview about Learning Curve Lecture Series on East Side Radio, 1 November 2024. The Art Gallery of NSW Members Instagram post of a snippet of the talk.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About " Sensual Ontographic Assemblage"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sensual Ontographic Assemblage Oil on Linen, 40x30cm Exhibitions: 100 Years of Global Connections, International Student Lounge, University of Sydney, NSW, 2023 Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest, 2022, finalist, https://circle-arts.com/ Collie Art Prize, WA, 2020, finalist Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, QLD, 2020, finalist Prints Available Here: https://www.pineapplegallery.com.au/buy-prints/simon-weir-sensual-ontographic-assemblage-portrait-of-my-wife/ Relative size of paintings shown below. These pairings subvert the usual study and finished piece by making the study the larger and more polishged rendering of the piece. Togather, they represent the radically large effect that context has on how we perceive objects.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About " Sensual Ontographic Assemblage"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Relative sizes. Priase for studies. These pairings subvert the usual distinction between studies and finished paintings whereby the study is the larger and more highly polished objerct</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/exquisite-corpse-vaults</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/irrational-architecture</loc>
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      <image:title>Surreal Architecture</image:title>
      <image:caption>We first saw the new ultralight weight architecture, when these huge air conditioners were suspended over the streets, digital image, 2009.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sacrifical Architecture, digital Image, 2009.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Seagram Series 8 (Invasive Architecture), digital image, 2009.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Surreal Architecture</image:title>
      <image:caption>Variations on Utzon’s shells, ink and pencil on paper, 2008</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/anecdote</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-05-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>"Anecdote"</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sensual Ontographic Assemblage (Portrait of my wife) Oil on Linen, 40x30cm Exhibitions: 100 Years of Global Connections, International Student Lounge, University of Sydney, NSW, 2023 Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Contest, 2022, finalist, https://circle-arts.com/ Collie Art Prize, WA, 2020, finalist Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, QLD, 2020, finalist Prints Available Here: https://www.pineapplegallery.com.au/buy-prints/simon-weir-sensual-ontographic-assemblage-portrait-of-my-wife/ Relative size of paintings shown below. These pairings subvert the usual study and finished piece by making the study the larger and more polishged rendering of the piece. Togather, they represent the radically large effect that context has on how we perceive objects.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/how-images-become-real</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/this-is-not-a-surrealism</loc>
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      <image:title>"this is not a surrealism"</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is Not a Surrealism - A Manifesto for and against the Simulacra of Surrealism Sydney: Apothecary Archive Publishing, 2024. A$25 + Postage Listen: Interview about This is not a Surrealism on East Side Radio, 1 November 2024.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/response-to-andr-breton</loc>
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      <image:title>Response to André Breton</image:title>
      <image:caption>Response to André Breton André Breton, Magic Art (Special Edition), André Breton, Magic Art (Deluxe Edition), London: Fulgur Press, 2024. £425, £150 + Postage In 1953, Breton asked thrity two surrealists and authors - from Heidegger to Magritte - a series of questions about magic and art, and published them in Magic Art. For the 2024 edition, thirty two contemporary surrealists and authors - including Weir - provided new answers to those same questions. Available in Magic Art Redux, in the Deluxe and Special Editions of Magic Art.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pracitioner and Scholar at the intersection of Surrealism and Architecture, Weir regularly publishes theoretical and historial pieces in prestige academic journals. A few recent key examples are below. A more complete list of publicatios is here: https://www.simonweir.net/artistresume</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Research Article Weir, S., Rich, S. (2024) “Shipwreck Architecture” Footprint - Delft Architecture Theory Journal, 31, 51-65. Open Access</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Research Article Dalí, S.,Weir, S. (2025) “Salvador Dalí at MoMA’s 1958 Gaudí Symposium” International Journal of Surrealism, 3(1), 138-142. [link] US$19 (PDF)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Research Article Weir, S. (2022) “Salvador Dalí in Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York” Journal of Architceture, 27(2-3), 398-419. [link] US$63 (PDF)</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/inland-memory-framed</loc>
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      <image:title>Inland Memory Framed</image:title>
      <image:caption>Inland Memory, oil and collage on linen, 38x30.5cm, - framed.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.simonweir.net/privacy-framed</loc>
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      <image:title>Privacy - Framed</image:title>
      <image:caption>Privacy (two black feathers boxed together), oil on linen 30.5x38cm - framed</image:caption>
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