Danny Kneebone

Award-winning Melbourne-born artist and photographer Daniel Kneebone, applying his extensive professional experience in photography and graphic design, uses a massive canvas, theatrical lighting and a camera to capture multiple images from his imagination, and then utilises colour pixels to ‘paint’ a story that mesmerises the viewer.

His current art practice explores live performance art, highlighting professional burlesque artists who actively contribute to the vaudeville scene in Australia. In doing this, he creates multi-layered images where fiction and reality meet, narratives emerge and past and present fuse. He does this by combining a strong sense of colour, light and composition to depict theatrically dramatized characters, which create a sense of wonder and intrigue.

Strong influences include pop art and film, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, through to the bright and strong colours of the French Impressionist era. Daniel often references women performers and other modern female archetypes.