Naarm (Melbourne) based artist, Daniel O’Toole makes multi-media works spanning sculptural colour-field paintings, video and sound. Having worked as a musician and trained as an audio engineer, Daniel plays a range of instruments and produces experimental electronic music that has been seamlessly integrated into his synaesthetic video works that appear to be moving versions of his paintings. The range of media and sensory modes of communication have come together to form an expansive practice that deals with natural phenomena.

Daniel has an almost scientific way of utilising technology and industrial fabrication processes to interface between humanity and the natural world. The result being as playful and unexpected as it is luminous and subtle. 

Photography has always accompanied my painting - the quiet force riding alongside, sometimes leading the way. I’m drawn to the dialogue between the two: making photographs that feel like paintings, and paintings that echo photographic qualities.

Lately, I’ve been exploring film soup - soaking film in everyday ingredients like salt or vinegar to introduce unpredictable textures and distortions. I’ve also begun working with semi-transparent acrylic surfaces layered with liquids and pigments, creating abstract compositions that filter and refract light.

It’s like an analogue form of Photoshop, but with a human touch. Through these processes, I’ve embraced chance and impulse as a creative ethos, letting colour, light, and materiality guide the work organically.

Photography has always accompanied my painting - the quiet force riding alongside, sometimes leading the way. I’m drawn to the dialogue between the two: making photographs that feel like paintings, and paintings that echo photographic qualities.

Lately, I’ve been exploring film soup - soaking film in everyday ingredients like salt or vinegar to introduce unpredictable textures and distortions. I’ve also begun working with semi-transparent acrylic surfaces layered with liquids and pigments, creating abstract compositions that filter and refract light.

It’s like an analogue form of Photoshop, but with a human touch. Through these processes, I’ve embraced chance and impulse as a creative ethos, letting colour, light, and materiality guide the work organically.

White Noise
White Noise
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The Sound of Flowers
The Sound of Flowers
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Pollen
Pollen
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Grainfall
Grainfall
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Above and Below
Above and Below
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Polar Patterns
Polar Patterns
Polar Patterns
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Dust Spirits
Dust Spirits
Dust Spirits
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Veril
Veril
Veril
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Chromatic Synthesis #1
Chromatic Synthesis #1
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Triangle Wave
Triangle Wave
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Field Recordings
Field Recordings
Field Recordings
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Cell theory #3
Cell theory #3
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Thermal Expansion
Thermal Expansion
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Sky Snow 2
Sky Snow 2
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Lavender Light
Lavender Light
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Film Burn
Film Burn
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Garden Afternoon
Garden Afternoon
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Blue Algae
Blue Algae
Blue Algae
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Transmission
Transmission
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Expansion field
Expansion field
Expansion field
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Warm Chords
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Warm Chords
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Poly Rhythms
Poly Rhythms
Poly Rhythms
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Earth Frequency
Earth Frequency
Earth Frequency
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White Noise
White Noise
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Thermal Expansion
Thermal Expansion
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The Sound of Flowers
The Sound of Flowers
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Sky Snow 2
Sky Snow 2
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Pollen
Pollen
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Lavender Light
Lavender Light
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Grainfall
Grainfall
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Film Burn
Film Burn
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Above and Below
Above and Below
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Garden Afternoon
Garden Afternoon
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Polar Patterns
Polar Patterns
Polar Patterns
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Blue Algae
Blue Algae
Blue Algae
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Dust Spirits
Dust Spirits
Dust Spirits
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Transmission
Transmission
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Veril
Veril
Veril
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Expansion field
Expansion field
Expansion field
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Chromatic Synthesis #1
Chromatic Synthesis #1
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Warm Chords
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Warm Chords
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Triangle Wave
Triangle Wave
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Poly Rhythms
Poly Rhythms
Poly Rhythms
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Field Recordings
Field Recordings
Field Recordings
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Earth Frequency
Earth Frequency
Earth Frequency
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Cell theory #3
Cell theory #3
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