Biography:
Born in Dublin in 1961, Daniel was educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology (1978-1983), the National College of Art and Design (1999-2001) and the Waterford Institute of Technology (2002 – 2007). He holds Diploma qualifications in photography, a Masters in Fine Art Media and a Masters in Education Management. He began exhibiting his photographs in 1982 while still a student. Since then he has been involved in both group and solo exhibitions that have been shown nationally and internationally. In 1987 he was awarded the inaugural Irish Life Arts Award for photography. In the same year he began teaching photography at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire.
He has coordinated the development of the photography programme at IADT from the first full-time, nationally accredited, photography course in Ireland established in 1988 through to Diploma courses and currently, the BA (Hons) Photography.
His photographic works are in the collections of the Government of Ireland, the University of Salamanca, Microsoft, Guinness Ireland, Ville de Paris and several private collections. Daniel has been the recipient of two visual arts bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland.
The piece in this exhibition, County Meath 1996, is from an exhibition of Irish landscape images presented at the Gallery of Photography in October 1997 under the title Causality and Contingency. Prior to showing at the gallery in Dublin the work was exhibited in Helsinki, Finland and Salamanca, San Sebastian and Valladolid in Spain.
