Daniel Allam, The Local, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Daniel Allam
Gallery 3
Friday 8 August - Sunday 31 August
Opening Thursday 7 August 2025, 6pm-8pm
For Daniel Allam, the coastal regions and the life that fills its landscapes are a natural source of inspiration and rejuvenation. Being present in our daily lives can be a challenge, but for Daniel, being in nature provides an important reminder of what it means to live in the moment.
Daniel’s paintings are inspired by his daily walks around the Eurobodalla Shire, a coastal region known for its beauty. This popular holiday destination lay only a few short hours from the nation’s capital and is a place where locals and visitors alike can be greeted by the sublime beauty of its beaches and landscapes. Through oil painting, Daniel captures moments that awaken the soul; the feeling of the sea breeze against his skin, the intoxicating scent of the sea. Daniel recreates these moments that have inspired reverential respect, fear and wonder to relive and share this reminder with the wider world.
In Awe invites viewers to partake in Daniel’s many beach walks through his eyes. While his paintings are often inspired by a particular story or encounter, Daniel is most concerned with the feelings and experiences that these scenes conjure for viewers. The invitation to share in the awe inspired by nature is a personal journey for each individual, and acts as a reminder to both embrace and to be embraced by nature.
About the Artist
Daniel Allam is based in Yuin country, otherwise known as Dalmeny in the Eurobodalla Shire. Daniel enjoys working with a number of visual mediums, from ink to oil paint. For this exhibition, "In Awe", he has chosen to work with oil paint on stretched canvas or linen.
Daniel graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Visual Culture through Curtin University. Although Daniel received his formal education as a mature age student, his practice in art stems back to early childhood. During his studies, Daniel felt a need for connection with nature as a form of inspiration.
He had come to realise that this was the primary theme that was always there for him, and it was what urged him to express himself visually and somatically through paint.
Hence the body of works in his collection, "In Awe", are mostly large scale paintings as this allows for a type of dance during their compositions. Daniel enjoys this style that creates space for him to work both up close in detail and to paint in long swooping curves that flow through the paintings on display.