'I’ve painted a lot of dark unpeopled streetscapes, set in encroaching darkness, [My work is] about urban anxiety; that sense of walking around a town at night when you can’t see anyone but you know violence could be around the next corner.'
'If Daniel Unverricht was a novelist, he would be penning noir-influenced, script-ready mysteries about secret rendezvous in alleyways and cafes. As a painter, he accomplishes a very similar mood of harsh, edgy and slightly disquieting night settings.'
(1) Claire Harvey, Daniel Unverricht interview. Canvas magazine, Weekend Herald newspaper, Auckland., 23 February 2008.
(2) Adrienne Rewi. Sunday Star times newspaper, NZ. 30 January, 2005.
Daniel Unverricht has an MFA from Elam School of Art (2003) and has been a finalist in many art awards including the 2007 Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award and 2007 Wallace Art Awards, the Waikato National Art Award, Nokia Arts Awards - Asia Pacific, National Drawing Award and the Norsewear Art Award. In 2005 he was runner up for the BMW Art Award and had work in AKO5. He has three times been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards and has twice won the Hawke's Bay Art Review supreme award. His work has been included in NZ museum exhibitions and shown internationally at Kyoto University Art Gallery, Japan. His work is in the collection of the Hawke's Bay Museum, Wallace Arts Trust and the collections of many of NZ’s leading artists. |
