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)

You Say Astor I Say Astor 2014
Manipulated theatre poster, framed
65.5 x 48 cm
Detail
Admit One 2014
Theatre ticket, framed
65.5 x 48 cm
Admit One 2014
Theatre ticket, framed
65.5 x 48 cm
Detail
Lost In Space 2013
Installation view. Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Dimensions variable
Lost In Space 2013
Installation view. Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Dimensions variable
Lost In Space 2013
Installation view. Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
Dimensions variable