Daniel MacCarthy
b. 1986, United Kingdom
Daniel MacCarthy (1986) was born in Oxford and raised in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. He studied History at the University of Sussex (2005-8) and then received his post-graduate diploma from the Royal Drawing School in 2011. He completed the Turps Studio Programme in 2019 after which he returned to live on the border of Wales. His work addresses the perennial yet urgent theme of our relationship with, and estrangement from, the natural world. He works primarily in oils and distemper and printmaking. Recent shows include Full House (Canopy Collections, Cromwell Place, London) Keep on Trucking (Ben Parsons Gallery, Oxford), The Peace of Wild Things (Sidney Nolan Trust, Wales), and Things are in the Saddle (Galera, Milan.