b. 1979 in Wangaratta, VIC
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
b. 1979 in Wangaratta, VIC
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Danny Morse uses painting, photography and sculpture to playfully construct visual witticisms. Morse has often used found objects in his work, whether presented as is or in some way altered. It is a technique that was brought to modernism through the surrealist ‘objet trouve’ and was supposed to be a real thing that through its strangeness or ‘marvelousness’ pierced the everyday drudgery of life and pointed to another zone of possibility, ‘the surreal’.
Often memorialising objects from his childhood in fantastical ways, he uses nostalgia to comment on our consumer values and obsessions.
Danny Morse graduated from the National Art School in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Art. He has held several solo exhibitions in Australia and has exhibited at Chalk Horse since its opening in 2008. His most recent solo exhibitions include Flotsam (2023) and Can’t tip the butcher back (2021). Recent group shows include Spring Art Fair, Melbourne (2023, 2025) and in Shaping Wit (2021) at Art Space, Concourse, Sydney.Morses’ work has been featured in numerous publications including Vogue Living and Art Collector Magazine. In 2024 he was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. That year he also exhibited a major sculptural installation titled Cement Miller No3 (into the clinker) at the Kandos Museum Grounds forCementa curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.Key works have been acquired by Artbank and by private collectors.
