Taide & Design Magazine 6/8 2009

The time is now

Daniel Milton's recent work defies any traditional attempt at categorisation. Photograph, collage, or painting, visual diary or surrealistic venture – the work is a fusion of technique and theme.

Combining his own favourite photographs from many thousands taken each year Milton builds up a digital collage which is then printed on canvas and to which he makes selective painted interventions in acrylic. In the resulting work it can be difficult to distinguish photography from painting and this deliberate confusion extends to the meaning of the work; what is “real” and what is “fiction”? A surreal confusion pervades all; the photographic record often appearing more extraordinary than the painted intervention.

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