Daniel
Richardson-Lawless is a multidisciplinary visual artist who currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. His practice
begins with the retrieval of found materials scavenged from sites of
waste. These objects form the foundation of his practice - they are
repurposed as surfaces, and their shape and texture informs the
paintings that are made on them. This paint depicts a speculative world
populated by spaces of transition that are at once ubiquitous yet
un-placeable. There are no traditional figures in this world; they have
been subsumed by the environment they once occupied. These spaces can
take the form of closed interiors or open landscapes, but the lack of a
human subject is constant. The paintings are made to envelop the viewer,
drawing their eye down long corridors or winding paths, while the
obstructions and perforations on the material draws the eye back to the
physical world, to the viewer’s direct surroundings, and to the object’s
history.
His practice probes and presses our
pre-conceived notions surrounding space, and the inherent biases that
exist in our experiences of it. It also challenges conventional material
practices within contemporary art, as the paintings begin to decay the
moment they are created.