Simon Attwooll

Simon Attwooll (b.1985) is interested in the intersection between new and old technologies and what information becomes lost or overlooked in either.  Slipping between mediums: not quite painting, or printmaking, nor object-based practice, Attwooll manoeuvres between analogue, digital and human modes using found photographs as readymades.

In a time when photography often only exists in a digitised form Attwooll encourages an alternative method of engagement. Attwooll’s works explore the nuances in our relationship to them and encourage us to re-examine our relationship to the photographic image and object.

Selected recent shows include: Dark Matter, Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, 2026; You can go back to the past but no one will be waiting for you there, Hutch, Dunedin 2025; Welcome Home, Hutch, Dunedin, 2025; Traces, Social Gallery, Wellington, NZ 2024; Under Pressure, Social Gallery, Wellington, NZ 2024; Second Cut, Kynton Ridge Artspace, Kynton, AU, 2023; Windows SPA_CE Gallery, Napier, NZ, 2021; View Finders, Olga Gallery, Dunedin NZ 2021; |NOTFAIR|, Melbourne, AU, 2021; Ton tonton tond thon, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2020; Sometimes a bad experience is better than a long explanation, {Suite} Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2019.

Currently living and working in Wellington New Zealand, Attwooll has shown nationally and internationally and has works held in both public and private collections.