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.

Vortex
Vortex
Vortex

$25,000.00

Voices in the Wind
Voices in the Wind
Voices in the Wind

$13,000.00

Crackling Nocturnal
Crackling Nocturnal
Crackling Nocturnal

$11,000.00

Precipice
Precipice

$6,800.00

Earthlings
Earthlings
Earthlings

$5,400.00

Roads and Rivers
Roads and Rivers
Roads and Rivers

$4,600.00

Soundwaves
Soundwaves

$3,800.00

Figments
Figments

$3,800.00

Floating Monuments
Floating Monuments

$3,800.00

Quiet Tones
Quiet Tones

$3,400.00

Cities Within Cities
Cities Within Cities

$3,400.00

Lavender Light
Lavender Light
$ Contact Gallery
Temple of Dreams
Temple of Dreams

$13,000.00

Sirat
Sirat
Sirat

$11,000.00

Cinderous
Cinderous

$10,000.00

Amplified Vision
Amplified Vision

$5,500.00

Hidden Glow
Hidden Glow

$5,400.00

Invisible Bridge
Invisible Bridge

$3,800.00

Black Flowers
Black Flowers

$3,800.00

Night Bloom
Night Bloom

$3,800.00

Spinning in Silence
Spinning in Silence

$3,400.00

Ceremonial Noise
Ceremonial Noise

$3,400.00

Outer Magnolia Vinyl
Outer Magnolia Vinyl

$60.00

White Noise
White Noise
$ Contact Gallery
Vortex
Vortex
Vortex

$25,000.00

Temple of Dreams
Temple of Dreams

$13,000.00

Voices in the Wind
Voices in the Wind
Voices in the Wind

$13,000.00

Sirat
Sirat
Sirat

$11,000.00

Crackling Nocturnal
Crackling Nocturnal
Crackling Nocturnal

$11,000.00

Cinderous
Cinderous

$10,000.00

Precipice
Precipice

$6,800.00

Amplified Vision
Amplified Vision

$5,500.00

Earthlings
Earthlings
Earthlings

$5,400.00

Hidden Glow
Hidden Glow

$5,400.00

Roads and Rivers
Roads and Rivers
Roads and Rivers

$4,600.00

Invisible Bridge
Invisible Bridge

$3,800.00

Soundwaves
Soundwaves

$3,800.00

Black Flowers
Black Flowers

$3,800.00

Figments
Figments

$3,800.00

Night Bloom
Night Bloom

$3,800.00

Floating Monuments
Floating Monuments

$3,800.00

Spinning in Silence
Spinning in Silence

$3,400.00

Quiet Tones
Quiet Tones

$3,400.00

Ceremonial Noise
Ceremonial Noise

$3,400.00

Cities Within Cities
Cities Within Cities

$3,400.00

Outer Magnolia Vinyl
Outer Magnolia Vinyl

$60.00

Lavender Light
Lavender Light
$ Contact Gallery
White Noise
White Noise
$ Contact Gallery

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