Title

Moynihan, Daniel.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Daniel Moynihan

Born in Melbourne, Daniel Moynihan attended the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and graduated in 1967 as one of the first of four students to receive a Diploma in Printmaking in Australia. The print workshop at RMIT was a centre of great innovation and activity with many of the lecturers, like established artists Udo Sellbach, Tate Adams and Grahame King, working alongside the students such as George Baldessin and Jock Clutterbuck. All of these artists are represented in the National Gallery of Australia print collection, with examples of prints produced during this period.

 In Melbourne during the 1970s, Moynihan became Lecturer in Printmaking at Prahran College of Advanced Education and later at the Preston Institute of Technology.

Moynihan continued to produce his own prints, which were mostly created on his kitchen table. He later moved to Tasmania and began to travel regularly overseas on study tours to further his experience in printmaking. Most significantly, since 1983 Moynihan has made several trips to Paris where he worked at the workshop of Lacourier et Frelaut (printers of Picasso’s Vollard suite).

In the 1980s, Moynihan became fascinated with the Tasmanian tiger and spent long hours researching through archives in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. This interest reflected strongly in Moynihan’s work where the image of the tiger metamorphosed into a strange and alien form, a Tasmanian tiger man, which has become entrenched into Moynihan’s iconography. Moynihan has exhibited widely in both group shows and individual exhibitions, in Australia and overseas. Most significant of the group exhibitions was the Print Council of Australia’s inaugural Print exhibition in 1967, which toured nationally in Australia, and Australian Prints assembled by Ursula Hoff for the Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 1972.

Moynihan is represented in the National Gallery of Australia (26 works), in all State print collections and major regional galleries, as well as most significant university collections and New Zealand galleries.

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