About
My work frequently harnesses chance as a creative force in order to explore our relationships with the quotidian.
Working across disciplines, I have used live animals, digital media, language and interventions to create work that encourages the audience to re-examine natural and cultural phenomena from the world around them.
Through these disparate methodologies, I aim to provide a platform for myself and the viewer to connect with universal truths related to existence and our humanity.
Having been based in mainland China from 2011-2021, some of my work has been influenced by a modern Chinese aesthetic.
Bio
Daniel Staincliffe
Based in Manchester, UK
Daniel is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and achieved a Level 6 HSK Chinese proficiency certificate in 2014
Education
2011 - 2013: Sichuan Normal University, Masters in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL), Chengdu, China
2005 - 2008: Manchester School of Art, Interactive Arts BA - First Class (Hons), Manchester, UK
Solo Exhibitions
BitMing - Spirit Crypto Art for the Afterlife, B-Joy Gallery, Xiamen, China, July 3-17 2021
Creases on a Map, BUG SPACE, Xiamen, China, 26 - Oct 26 2020
Year of the Rat Masks, Third Floor, Xiamen, China, June 20 - July 26 2020
Release—An investigation into compassion, Third Floor, Xiamen, China, Dec 21 2009 - Feb 23 2019
Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar, Third Floor, Xiamen, China, Oct 26 2019 - Nov 17 2019 2020
Release, Xiangyunji Vegetarian Restaurant, Xiamen - June 2017
Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar, The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, August 2011 - August 2012
Blind Men Feel Elephants: works in video on the natural world, Prussian Projekte, Nottingham, 15 - 30 May 2010
An urban ecology of chance, easaHQ, Manchester, 17 - 23 October 2009
PAL Functions, The VAULT Gallery, Lancaster, October 2008
Selected Group/Collaborative Exhibitions
Under the Bed Sale, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China, April 30th 2021
In Parallel, DuiShan Art Museum, Xiamen, China, Oct 2 - Oct 20 2020
The Middle Ground, BUG Space, Houtian Project, Xiamen, China, September 2019
Unknown Monsters, CFCCA, Manchester, February 20 - March 29 2014
Unknown Monsters, Blue Roof Art District, Chengdu, China, September 28 - October 13 2013
Ways of Looking, National Media Museum, September 30 - October 30 2011
Re-Covering, Untitled Gallery, Manchester, June 17 - July 31 2011
People’s Art 2010, Touchstones Rochdale, October 23 - December 5 2010
Mirabel Open Studios, Manchester, October 9 - 10 2010
Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, August 28 - November 3 2010
Purveyors, Rogue Project Space, August 20 - 28 2010
Northern Futures, the Civic, Barnsley, July 28 - September 10 2010
A Horse walks into a Bar, Castlefield Gallery, June 18 - August 8 2010
Save Us, Macclesfield Barnaby Festival, June 18 - July 4 2010
Mill24, Islington Mill, Salford, April 24 2010
Mirabel Open Studios, Mirabel Studios, Manchester, December 2009
This & That, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, September 2009
Expo Leeds, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, 26-27 September 2009
Didsbury Arts Festival 2009, Sous Chef, Manchester, 26 September - 3 October 2009
Trade City, CHIPS Building, Manchester, July 2009
Startrunning D, Sandbar, Manchester, November 2008
Interactive Arts Degree Show, Holden Gallery, Manchester, June 2008
Cascade, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, February 2008
18 Modern Originals, CUBE, Manchester, June 2005
Residencies
Fauna Automata: British Wild Boar, residency project in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, July 2011.
Whisper Residency with Sarah Sanders, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, December 2009
An urban ecology of chance, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, April 2009
Awards
Northern Futures Awards 2010 - runner up in the Fine Art category.
Lectures
2019 November 12 - Chance in the Creative Process, Huaqiao University School of Art, Quanzhou, China