Collection: Daniel MacCarthy

Working primarily in painting Daniel MacCarthy (1986 Oxford) uses ambiguous figurative scenes as a tool to reassess our relationship with nature. Concerned with the power of allegorical imagery to obliquely convey a message whilst capturing the essential chaos and unknowability of the world, he employs an approach similar to the poet Keats’ term negative capability, essentiality the capacity to accept uncertainty and doubt. Attempting to re-arrange our common assumptions regarding nature and society, MacCarthy’s voice is both tender and urgent, sardonic and earnest, despairing and hopeful in its search for meaning within the tangled complexity and indifference of nature.

Daniel MacCarthy (b.1986) studied History at the University of Sussex 2005-8 and then completed the post-graduate Drawing year at the Royal Drawing School in 2011. He then studied on the Turps Studio Programme in 2019-20 after which he returned to his native Welsh borders. Recent shows include Strange Heart Beating at JGM Gallery, London, CANOPY- Canopy Collections, 14 Cavendish Sq. London and Stage II curated by LLE projects at Bay Arts, Cardiff.