Alumnus Profile: Daniel Dorall
Name: Daniel Dorall Degree: BArch 2005 Current Position: Manager of John Buckley Gallery in Richmond WITH a bit of imagination and a lot of creativity, DANIEL DORALL has found a somewhat unusual use for his architecture degree. |
Top image: Long Bar (detail) 2008
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Using the skills he learned as a University of Melbourne student, he has developed a signature style of art that is already turning heads in Melbourne and New Zealand.
Mr Dorall uses architectural model-making skills to create fascinating miniature maze-like constructions.
His unusual works have already won him representation by a leading commercial art gallery, Dianne Tanzer Gallery, where his first major solo exhibition will be launched this month.
Mr Dorall said many of the maze-like constructions to be exhibited were based on the Melbourne CBD grid-system.
“Using blueprints of the city, I took individual blocks of the CBD and manipulated them into mazes, building them up into three dimensional mazes,” he said.
“I have also used different layouts to construct mazes – one maze is based on a skull, another is based on a section of a heart, another is based on plans of a church.”
Mr Dorall started creating miniature mazes for his first art exhibition, which was held at the University of Melbourne’s George Paton Gallery in 2005.
Since then, his fascination with the concept of mazes has continued to grow.
“I’m interested in the fact the maze object is a building, a construction, but it doesn’t have a purpose,” he said.
“It’s just fun and playful.”
Though his career as an artist is rapidly taking off, the Malaysian-born alumnus says he knew little about contemporary Australian art until recent years.
He developed an interest as a student, when he often visited George Paton Gallery.
An exhibition of Daniel Dorall’s artworks will be displayed at Dianne Tanzer Gallery, 108-110 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, from Thursday 11 September to Friday 10 October. To find out more or to view more of his works, visit www.diannetanzergallery.net.au
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