Daniel Burley
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1992
Daniel Burley works with the slippage of tropes and the dislocation of symbols. His practice unsettles the authority of the signifier, bending familiar motifs until they detach from recognition and circulate in altered states. Figures, objects and fragments arrive as echoes, disguises, estranged repetitions or emblematic ciphers.
Burley’s works often resemble fictions more than forms, treating material as a site of semiotic drift rather than resolution. What appears symbolic dissolves into ornament; what seems ornamental reveals itself as diagram . His practice remains evasive yet insistent, inhabiting the unstable interval where meaning turns opaque, and where displacement itself becomes a mode of resistance.
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Born in 1992 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK2016-2019
Fine Art Post-Graduate Degree, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK2012-2016
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK -
Solo exhibitions
2025
TERSE, curated by Carlotta Roma and Will Vetch, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK
Eiffel Tower, Alpha Mews SE14 6TZ, London, UK
2023
Cook In The Slaughterhouse, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK
2022
Lumpo Party!, Gao Gallery, London, UK
2021
TILHAROTG, Gao Gallery, London, UK
2020
Skelf II, Gao Gallery, London, UK
2018
HOOKERO HOOKERO, D.E.L.F., Vienna, Austria
Group exhibitions
2024
Lamp Show, SET Lewisham, London, UK
2023
Armour of Contempt, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
2022
Two Nights of Unlearning, The Horse Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Can't Stop Can't Let Go, Palazzo Monti, Bescia, Italy
Ghost Show, Bussy Building, London, UK
Potentials, Minority Street, London, UK
2017-2020
Stampede, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK
2018
Preserves, Unit 6 Peckham, London, UK
Premiums, Burlington House, London, UK
TPPS, Gallery 46, London, UK
Addams Outtakes, Roaming Gallery, London, UK
2017
HOKAZ JOKAZ, Nunhead, London, UK
2016
Royal Society of British Artists Annual, Guildhall, London, UK
Legumes, 6 Malden Road, London, UK
2015
East Anglia Records Compilation Launch, UCL Wilkins Building, London, UK
Peckham Experiment, Pioneer Centre, London, UK -
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Selected images
Untitled 2×2 spheres 1, 2025, oil on canvas, 35 x 35 cm
Axel, 2025, latex, car spray paint and nail polish on wood and oil on canvas, 101 x 114 x 6.5 cm
Eiffel Tower, 2025, oil on mixed media, 182 x 172 x 190 cm
Four Eye Machine, 2024-2025, latex, rhinestones and nail polish on wood and oil on canvas, 98 x 107 x 6.5 cm
Red Fox, 2024-2025, latex, rhinestones and nail polish on wood and oil on canvas, 87 x 132 x 10.5 cm
Untitled (clown shaped speaker playing Cook In The Slaughterhouse), 2023, acrylic on mixed media, 125 x 95 x 45 cm
And To Whomever You May Seduce I Hope They Soon Realise Your Agony, 2022, oil on mixed media, 185 x 205 x 165 cm
And To Whomever You May Seduce I Hope They Soon Realise Your Agony, 2022, oil on mixed media, 185 x 205 x 165 cm
Installation view, TILHAROTG, Gao Gallery, London, UK, 2021
Installation view, TILHAROTG, Gao Gallery, London, UK, 2021
Chick An Undead Angel Covered In Blood With The Wings And Talons Of A Golden Eagle, A Pig's Face Sewn Over The Face Hidden Beneath, 2019, oil on mixed media, 90 x 79 x 80 cm