Presenting a comprehensive series of etchings by Daniel Moynihan; intensely personal and powerful narrative imagery. The use of anthropomorphic figures is pervasive in Moynihan’s artmaking. This form of hybrid representation acts as a doubling in meaning; intermediary images introduce hidden associations or personal contemplation. Moynihan’s “use of this unusual theme seems to challenge viewers to unravel his wider aims and understand his artistic motivations,” the gallery advertises. Images are “guided by the insightful whisperings of the ‘inner beast’ – that psychological proxy; that transactional and undomesticated voice within.”
Daniel Moynihan, Munster man, wicker man, 2021, etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, drypoint, sugar lift, and roulette on copper, ed. 30, 60 × 90cm. Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne
Australian Galleries
2 to 20 August 2022
Melbourne
