About
Simon Twose’s work focuses on drawing, particularly in the territory between art and architecture practices. Twose researches through creative works, which have transitioned from traditional drawing and built projects to spatio-temporal drawing installations. Twose is an architect and associate professor at the School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington.
Selected works
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Old House (installation) - Twose, S., Globa, A., Prisk, O., Jones, E.
Te Auaha Gallery, Te Aro, Wellington, NZ, 6 July – 4 August, 2023.
Also in, What is Drawing Research? Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, UK, 3 November- 1 December 2023.
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Architectures of Fire (video work) - Twose S., Globa A., Moloney J., Harvey L.
In CAADRIA 2022 Post Carbon, John Street Gallery, Sydney, AU, 28 March-27 April, 2022.
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Reef: Drawing in the Expanded Field (video drawing work) - Twose, S., Globa, A.
In Drawn to Time, Loughborough University, UK, 9 June, 2021.
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/drawn-to-time
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Reef (installation) - Twose, S., Globa, A., Moloney, J., Harvey, L.
Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, AU, 5 March – 1 May, 2020.
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Drawing/ Building /Cloud/ (installation) - Twose, S.
In RMIT Practice Research Symposium, Design Hub, Project Room 2, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1 June – 4 June 2017.
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Concrete /Cloud/ (installation) - Twose, S.
In TIME–SPACE-EXISTENCE, Palazzo Mora, XV Venice Biennale, 28 May – 27 November, 2016.
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Concrete Drawing (installation) - Twose, S.
In Drawing Is/Not Building, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, 24 April – 28 June, 2015.
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Drawing Is/Not Building (Group show) - Twose, S. (Curator).
Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, April 24 – June 28, 2015.
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Resonant City, The line of Least and Greatest Resistance (performance) - Twose, S., Simon, K.
In PQ15, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic, 21 June, 2015.
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Familial Clouds (installation) - Twose, S., Barrie, A.
In TRACES OF CENTURIES AND FUTURE STEPS, Palazzo Bembo, XIII Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, August 29 – November 25, 2012.
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New Zealand Exhibition - Jenner, R., Twose, et al.
In Identita e Differenze, Palazzo dell’Arte, XIX Triennale di Milano, Milan, 1996.
Also in Identita e Differenze, New Zealand Exhibition for XIX Triennale di Milano. New Gallery, Auckland. 1997.
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Auckland University Installation (work in installation) Jenner, R, Twose, S, et al.
In Venice Prize, Corderie Gallery, Arsenale, 5th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, 1991.
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On the Edge: Glamping: Design Investigations in the New Zealand Landscape - Perkins, N., Twose, S. (Curators).
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ, April 10 – April 19, 2015.
Selected publications
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Twose, S., Moloney, J, Globa, A., Harvey, L. Drawing the unfixed. In Budgett, J., Douglas, C., Twose, S. (Eds.) Interstices 21 Fixing. 123-136, Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 29 March 2022.
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Budgett, J., Douglas, C., Twose, S. (Eds.) Interstices 21 Fixing. 1-173, Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 29 March 2022.
https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/issue/view/38
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Twose, S., Moloney, J., Harvey, L. Canyon: Experiments in Drawing a Landscape. In Wiszniewski, D., French, C. (Eds.). Drawing On, Issue 3, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh, 23-37, 2019.
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Twose, S., Moloney, J. Drawing Canyon: Sfumato Presences in Drawing and Landscape. In Douglas, A., Hedges, S., Jenner, R. (Eds.). Presence, Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, Volume 19, 41 – 53, 2019.
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Barton, T., Treadwell, S., Twose, S. (Eds). Drawing Is/Not Building. Wellington: Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2016. (book).
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Twose, S. Concrete Drawing: Intra-active Potentials in Drawing, Objects and Urbanity. In The Urban Thing, Interstices Journal of the Arts, Volume 16, 38-46, 2016.
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Moloney, J., Smitheram, J., Twose, S. (Eds). Perspectives on Architectural Design Research: What Matters, Who Cares, How. Baunach: Spurbuchverlag / ADDR press, 2015.
Introduction and Practice Clouds article
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Twose, S., Smitheram, J. The Paper Life of Building: Performative Intra-action. In The Traction of Drawing, Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, Volume 11, 49-61, 2010.
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Twose, S. Concrete Poiētics: Entanglements between Drawing and Building. In Neves, P.S. (Ed.) Exploratory Strategies, AIS Architecture and Image Studies, Volume 1. No 1., 2020.
