A Portrait as a collection of objects, as an interrelationship between active personalities, concrete objects, some confusions, and some illusions.
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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.
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Prints Available:
https://www.pineapplegallery.com.au/buy-prints/simon-weir-sensual-ontographic-assemblage-portrait-of-my-wife/
Studies: Electrolyte Requiem.
Featured in Talking with Painters "Entrants to the 2024 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes talk with Maria Stoljar" (YouTube)
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.
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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.
In the infra-realism of object-oriented ontology, reality is withdrawn behind the sensual.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 When the subject of art is the withdrawn real, we see concealing veils.
The Blackfeather Sanctuary is celebrated and elevated while remaining withdrawn, veiled, decoyed, tended and guarded.
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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.
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
The current wip, a monumental displacement of a lighthouse onto the land with its consequences.
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.
