Daniel O’Toole’s New Art Series Reflects on Colour, Nature & Climate Warming.

Fragrant Earth by Daniel O’Toole.

Ice and Fire by Daniel O’Toole.

Inspired by the colours of the natural world, Daniel O’Toole has created a poignant new art series named Tempered Resolution. The exhibition responds to the pressures of climate change and human survival on a warming planet—within the confines of the digital age.

Presented by Curatorial+ Co, this body of work continues O’Toole’s Refraction painting series. The artist sets out to explore the subtle and unexpected colour results in nature, while also exploring the drama and dynamic changes that occur in natural elements when they’re placed under extreme pressure.

“I was thinking about how nature creates colours in a myriad of ways, at unexpected times, and in the most unusual places. I was also reflecting on the heating of our planet and its destruction on the natural world,” O’Toole explains. “This exhibition reflects the chaos and calm in contemporary life, and the effects of heat on our changing climate. The current state of the world is overwhelming, and perhaps it always has been, in different ways for various generations.”

“With this in mind, I began experimenting with the heat treatment of metals. Curious about the outcome, I wanted to explore by tempering mild steel. The results were as I’d expected in terms of the colour hues, but I was surprised by the vibrant shapes and nuanced gradients that emerged, which ultimately became more of a focus of the works than the colour results themselves,” O’Toole concludes.

The series will be accompanied by an album of musical compositions to reflect the artwork mood and subject matter. By removing the viewer from outside distractions, the specific harmonies and sounds further intensify the exhibition’s themes of alchemic change, and the power of nature to create both beauty and destruction. Gallery visitors are invited to bring their headphones and stay a while to listen to the accompanying soundtrack.

The exhibition run from the 24th of August to the 3rd of September at Curatorial+ Co’s Redfern gallery. To find out more click here.

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Heat Map by Daniel O’Toole.

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[Images courtesy of Daniel O’Toole.]