Second London Show For Daryl Waller










(PRWEB) January 25, 2006

Cornwall born artist Daryl Waller returns this March for his second solo in London. The show runs from Sunday 26th March 2006 to Saturday 1st April at the Coningsby Gallery, Tottenham Street. The private view is held on Tuesday 28th March 2006

Daryl’s work offers an honest account of humanity through drawings, paintings and animation. His work shows the full range of human contradictions united in uncompromising blunt honesty – both masculine and feminine, violence and love, beauty and ugliness, naivety and knowledge, nihilism and joy.

Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre Emma Rice, the proud owner of several Daryl Waller paintings said: “Daryl is, quite simply, a genius. He speaks of the dark truths of modern life with tender humour and jaw-dropping honesty. Daryl is funny, Daryl is moving, Daryl creates beauty where there ought to be none. He is more than an artist; he is a way of seeing. Daryl is my hero.”

28-year-old Daryl graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2003 and now moves between London and Cornwall in order to find work. His work is sought by private collectors and is included in large collections such as The Wellcome Trust. Daryl recently had shows with the A&D Gallery and the Foster Art Gallery, both in London.

His alter ego “Swiftie” is already well known on the underground scene in Cornwall through chalk and pastel drawings on streets and walls, handmade books and animation at o-region’s “Rough Cut” nights.

Controversy never seems to be far behind him. Last year in a group exhibition at the Vitreous Gallery, Truro, Cornwall his painting of a rabbit with the word DIE for a mouth caused outrage among residents of the retirement home opposite, resulting in the gallery’s first written complaint. The offending painting now proudly hangs in the gallery’s private collection.

Daryl says of his work: “When I make paintings I’m really trying to make songs. My drawings and paintings are my music, I try to give them a beat, a volume, bass line and guitar feedback depending on how I’m feeling or what I’m trying to express. Songs are mostly about a love or hate of something and so is my work.” The influences for this set of paintings include The Fall’s ‘live at the witch trials’ album, Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ album and the written works of William Hazlitt”.

London’s A&D Gallery owner Daniel Brant enthuses: “His viewpoint, style and subject matter are unique and his work is infused with a male romanticist ethos that is painfully absent in contemporary culture. It is full-on twisted, idealistic, alienated, bitter, adoring, stalking, vengeful, melancholic, pained, romance expressed as obsessive images that shout defiance but scream fragility.”

Press are invited to the private preview on Tuesday 28th March 6-9pm at the Coningsby Gallery.

The show runs from Sunday 26th March 2006 to Saturday 1st April.

For further information contact Andrew Coningsby at the Gallery on 01872 274 288

Images are available on request.

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