Interested in notions of Becoming and Assemblage, Daniel’s practice models new spatial possibilities through acts of walking, archiving, intuitive drawing and structural composition, using these processes to explore and understand present-day urban and rural environments and the communities that inhabit them. Daniel draws on his education in both Interior Architecture and Fine Art to devise interdisciplinary solutions and outcomes within his work. In the past he has created installations from domestic donations, swapped railroad ballast for the memories and objects in people’s pockets, invited the public to a house-warming party in a gallery, made inflatable architecture in a memorial garden and handed out 500 make-your-own-kaleidoscope kits in 2 days. He has had exhibitions of drawings, installations and sculptural structures, worked collaboratively to devise performative sound machines and walked for miles to understand the different environmental conditions between the towns along the East Kent coast.
Daniel is actively involved in arts and architecture education and educational outreach, working with different schools and universities, local organisations and within different community groups. He is currently a Lecturer of Design at UCA's Canterbury School of Architecture, an Associate Lecturer at UAL Chelsea, and a Link Tutor for the Institute of Creativity and Innovation, China. Daniel is also an Arts Award Adviser which has allowed him to help many students from a variety of different backgrounds to achieve their National Trinity Arts Award qualifications.
Contact
Email: daniel.tollady@hotmail.co.uk
instagram: @daniel.tollady
twitter: @danieltollady
Exhibitions
SOLO SHOWS
2020, Urban Archive: Folkestone - Customs House, Folkestone
2017, The Light-Mass Correlator - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2016, The Same Space and Future Reflections or A Fourth Dimension Transition - The Allotment, Margate
2013, Anomalies - Stepping Stone Studios, Maidstone
COMMISSIONS
2020, WINDOW A / WINDOW B - The Room Projects, Paris + SAGOME, London
2018, From the Air 2 - Block 67, Folkestone
2017, From the Air - Guildhall Street Folkestone (part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe programme)
2016, ATV_0.2//RESO - CAOS Art Gallery, Venice, Italy
2016, Knowing Me, Knowing You - Cheriton Light Festival, Cheriton
2015, Winter Illuminations - Watts Gallery, Surrey (Workshop)
2013, Spatial Exposure - "Artscapes: Urban Art and the Public" Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury
2012, Qualia - Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Ramsgate (part of the Ramsgate Art Festival)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022, UCA IAD x Interior Educators - OXO Bargehouse, London
2019, The Festival of Looking - Folkestone
2019, Across the Tracks - The Folkestone Urban Room, Folkestone
2019, The Rochester Wunderkammer (National Saturday Club Summer Show) - Somerset House, London
2018, The Tomorrow People - Customs House, Folkestone
2016, The Spatialist - Plinth, Cliftonville/Margate (co-curated with Anna Maria Baranowska)
2014, Mapping - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2014, The Fold - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2013, A4C2 - Stepping Stone Studios, Maidstone
2013, Danna Project Founders Show - The Pie Factory, Margate
2013, A4C: A4 Art for Charity - Stepping Stone Studios, Maidstone
2012, Urban Narrative - Limbo Substation, Margate
2012, BodyScape03 - University of Kent, Canterbury
2011, Bodyscape01 - Arlington House, Margate
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2017, The Ambient Mass - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2016, After Melancholia - Godinton House, Ashford
2015, Satellite:1984 - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2015, The Unprescribed House - Resort Studios, Margate
2014, All Things Vibrations - Brewery Tap, Folkestone (part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe programme)
2013, Danna Project Founders Show 2 - The Parade Gallery, Margate
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022, Aesthetica Art Prize 2022 (Longlist) - York Art Gallery, York
2022, Kent Wildlife, Connected in Time - The Beaney, Canterbury
2021, MagiC Carpets: Landed - Multiple Venues (Railway Station), Kaunas, Lithuania
2019, Scaffolds of Nature - Participate Contemporary, Shrewsbury
2018, Urban Skanzen - Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
2017, Future Reflections - 21+27 Guildhall Street, Folkestone (as part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe programme)
2017, Littoral Light 2 - Dumpton Gap beach, Ramsgate (as part of the Ramsgate Arts Festival)
2016, Littoral Light - Dumpton Gap beach, Ramsgate (as part of the Ramsgate Arts Festival)
2015, Graduate Show - University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
2014, Interlude - 64 Tontine Street, Folkestone
2012, Danna Project + Friends - New Vision Gallery, Canterbury
2012, Ebbs&Flows - Limbo Substation, Margate
2011, POP_UP CITY - The Pie Factory, Margate
2011, A1 Open - Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable
2011, Revealing the Woodland - The Art Room, Ashford
2011, We are Studio#Two - The Pie Factory, Margate
2009, Free Range: Interior Architecture - The Old Truman Brewery, London
Residency
01/06/2019 - 30/06/2019 // Artist in Residence for Folkestone Fringe (part of the Magic Carpets platform), Folkestone
13/06/2018 - 13/07/2018 // Artist in Residence for Prague Biennale (part of the Magic Carpets platform), Czech Republic.
01/09/2016 - 31/12/2016 // Artist in Residence for The Beaney Gallery and Museum, Canterbury
Publications
2022, Future Now - Aesthetica Art Prize 2022: 125 Contemporary Artists, (Aesthetica Magazine Ltd)
2021, MagiC Carpets: Landed (Quodlibet)
2019, Flash Art (Czech and Slovak edition), No.5 Vol. XIV-2019 - Special Issue: Magic Carpets
2018, Urban Artscapes: Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Contexts (McFarland & Co Inc)
2016, ATV_0.2//RESO, exhibition catalogue (Self-Published)
Education
2013 - 2015 // MA Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts
2006 - 2009 // BA(Hons) Interior Architecture and Design, University for the Creative Arts