…In one interview, when asked what his influences are, Moynihan nominated ‘inappropriate text messaging, the radio, driving a shitty car.’ This is a nice summation of his modus operandi. Moynihan is an artist strongly orientated towards the vernacular. His artistic palette is comprised of the stuff that surrounds most of us most of the time…

Phip Murray 2013

Fake it ’till you make it, Catalogue essay, Dan Moynihan, Lost In Space, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia