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’.
Morse graduated from the National Art School in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Art. He has exhibited at CHALK HORSE since its opening in 2008, including his 2023 solo show Flotsam, as well as presenting in SPRING1993 and Sydney Contemporary in recent years. In 2024 he was named a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize.
His work is included in the Artbank collection and private collections in Australia.
