Daryl Waller

Daryl Waller
Born	1978 Cornwall
Nationality	British
Field	Painting, Drawing, Photography, Animation, Video, Performance, Music/Sound
Training	RCA

Daryl Waller is an artist based in London, England. He was born in Cornwall, England in 1978. Waller studied at the Royal College of Art, London, 2001-2003. He won the Sheila Robinson Drawing Prize in 2003. Before the Royal College he studied to be an illustrator at Hereford College of Arts and Design 1997-2000.^[1]

He has shown his work frequently in London and Cornwall and has also exhibited internationally including with the WestGermany Gallery in Berlin with artist David Sherry and the Tart Gallery in San Francisco. Nomadic with his choice of medium Waller predominately makes paintings and drawings, but also makes video based work, artists’ books and performance art. He also works under the pseudonym Swiftie, who makes public intervention art.

In 2005 Waller's work was purchased by the Wellcome Collection.^[2]

In 2007 Waller contributed the artwork for the album Tuned to Love by the British band The Loose Salute He also directed the video for the song The Mutineer, a song taken from the same album.

In 2008 he had a solo show at Goldfish Contemporary Arts entitled 'Two Crosses' and also exhibited "The New Landscape" exhibition at the The Royal Cornwall Museum.

In July 2009 Waller was selected to exhibit at the Northern Print Biennale in Newcastle.^[3]

2009 also saw Waller create the artwork for the album Goodnight Unknown by Lou Barlow released through Merge and Domino Records. To accompany this he also directed a promo, 'sharing', the first song on the record.

In September of 2011 Waller set up Flawedcore Records, an independent label created to release his own sound and music material.

External links

• Official website
• Review of Two Crosses by artcornwall.org, 2007
• Imperfect Articles
• Axis profile page
• unspooled at the Tart Gallery, San Francisco
• FLAWEDCORE RECORDS

References

1. ^ http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=11846
2. ^ http://www.kallaway.co.uk/wellcome-press-release3.htm
3. ^ http://www.northernprint.org.uk/pages/northern-print-biennale.php

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Name	Waller, Daryl
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Date of birth	1978
Place of birth	Cornwall
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