Dan Moynihan

Dan Moynihan has an acute interest in cinema. He often makes objects that are a response from seeing something in a movie that has caught his eye, something specific. It’s not something that I might pay attention to, it could be some kind of booth (personalised spaces where labour takes place is a recurring motif) or a line someone says. Sometimes the reference might be obvious to the viewer, but often it’s not. I think the way Dan looks at cinema has affected the way he looks at the world because he also makes things from real life that I suspect stir a similar kind of feeling in him. These objects might look like something inspired from a movie, but they are not. I don’t think it matters that much to Dan where it comes from, or that it’s necessary for you to get the reference. I just think he is trying to communicate the feeling he gets from these objects through making the work.

– Simon Zoric, 2022, Out of Interest (Dan Moynihan’s Suspension of Disbelief)

Dan Moynihan,’On the waterfront’ 2022 digital print of Maritime Union book, mounted on aluminium, artist’s frame 116.5 x 93.7 cm
Dan Moynihan, ‘Singles and Singles (distortion)’ 2022 (detail) mirror polished stainless steel, acrylic spray 23.5cm x 7.5cm x 2cm
Dan Moynihan, ‘Singles and Singles (distortion)’ 2022 mirror polished stainless steel, acrylic spray 23.5cm x 7.5cm x 2cm
Dan Moynihan ‘Mixed Emotions’ 8 June – 6 July 2019
Dan Moynihan – Mixed Emotions 2019 installation photograph by Andrew Curtis
Dan Moynihan – Mixed Emotions 2019 installation photograph by Andrew Curtis