Daniel Mullen

abstract - artistiek onderzoek - schilderen

Rotterdam-based painter, Daniel Mullen, was born in Glasgow, Scotland 1985.

The question of sense perception is not limited to how we might perceive light, darkness, form, and color. We subsist in a precarious environment, in an era of mass digitization. How might our visual and emotional sensitivities be shifting as we find ourselves flowing between our physical environment and the techno-sphere, aided in part by back-lit digital devices?

With his work, Mullen aim’s to question these shifting modes of perception through dialectical compositions, and expressions of color light, and darkness. That results in works that might appear as digital renderings however upon closer inspection reveal the materiality by which they are constructed. A time-consuming craftsmanship that does not seek binary perfection, but rather embraces nuisance, imperfection, and materiality.


Untitled Interaction No.17 - 130x120cm Acrylic on linen 2023
Untitle interaction No.12 - 130x120cm Acrylic on linen, 2022
Untitled Interaction No.4 - 110x100 Acrylic on linen 2022
Spatial Drift No11 - 180 x 120 cm, Acrylic on wooden shaped panel 2022
Spatial Drift No.6 - 70 x 110 cm (various dimensions) Acrylic on wooden shaped panel 2021
continuum - 240x205cm, Acrylic on linen, 2021
Ephemeral Field - Acrylic on linen, 190x170cm, 2021
Slouching Towards No.6 - 200x190cm Acrylic on linen, 2020
Rose - 140x160cm, Acrylic on linen, 2019
74-04 - Acrylic on linen 2019