Above: Celtic Tool Tiger, 2004, etching, aquatint, 60 x 90 cm plate size, 2 plates colour.
“The emblematic qualities of Daniel Moynihan’s Tasmanian Tiger paintings stamp themselves into one’s consciousness almost immediately upon viewing. There is something insistent about their permutations and the theme of the Tasmanian Tiger betrays hidden aspects of the artist himself. No other artist in Australia has embraced this extinct Australian marsupial as a personal alter-ego and no other artist has so consistently explored its pictorial potential and anthropomorphic associations. Moynihan has won twenty-six major art prizes, held thirty-six solo exhibitions and shown his paintings, prints, drawings and watercolours in eighty-eight group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. The theme of the Tasmanian Tiger weaves its way through these showings like a unifying thread....
Extract from an Essay - A Persistent Theme in the Art of Daniel Moynihan Dr Ken Wach , Associate Professor, Principle Research Fellow at University of Melbourne Senior Art Consultant, Deutscher Menzies
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