Daniel Rapley
Daniel Rapley is a visual artist living and working in Nottinghamshire, UK.
His practice broadly examines structures of authorship and to what extent our perceptions of authenticity, originality and value could be haunted by the vestiges of animistic thought. Much of his work explores strategies of appropriation, working with found photographic material, as well as re-appropriating his own back catalogue. The entropy embedded in the physical fabric of the photographic medium is foregrounded in the work. Histories, contexts, producers and meanings overlap and conflate. Works produced become uncanny sites, where authorial certainty has slipped its leash.
Rapley’s work has featured in group shows at The Barbican, London, Club Solo, The Netherlands and Olympic Park, Beijing and has been reviewed in Frieze, Artists Newsletter and New York Arts. He holds a Fine Art Masters Degree (Distinction) from Chelsea College of Art and a First Class Fine Art Degree from De Montfort University. He is the Course Leader of the Art & Design Foundation Diploma at Lincoln College. He is a member of Primary, a contemporary visual arts organisation in Nottingham. His work is held in public and private collections.