Daryl Waller

Daryl Waller (born 1978 in Cornwall, England) is an artist based in London, England.

Biography
Waller studied illustration at Hereford College of Arts and Design in 1997-2000. He then studied at the Royal College of Art, London, 2001–2003, where he won the Sheila Robinson Drawing Prize. Waller predominately makes paintings and drawings but remains nomadic with his choice of medium, which include video, performance, books and more recently sound/music.

He has also worked under the pseudonym Swiftie, making public intervention art throughout Cornwall.

Exhibitions
Since graduating Waller has shown his work frequently in both London and Cornwall. He has also exhibited internationally at galleries such as West Germany in Berlin with artist David Sherry and Tart in San Francisco. In 2005 Waller's work was purchased by the Wellcome Collection. In 2008 he had a solo show in Penzance, Cornwall at Goldfish Contemporary Arts entitled 'Two Crosses' and also exhibited "The New Landscape" exhibition at the The Royal Cornwall Museum. In July 2009 Waller was selected to exhibit at the Northern Print Biennale in Newcastle.

Work with musicians
In 2007 Waller contributed the artwork for the album Tuned to Love by the British band The Loose Salute He also directed the video for the song The Mutineer, a song taken from the same album.

2009 saw Waller create the artwork for the album Goodnight Unknown by Lou Barlow released through Merge and Domino Records. To accompany this he also directed a promo, 'sharing', the first song on the record.

In 2012 Waller contributed an eleven minute video piece for the re-release of the 1987 Sentridoh album Weed Forestin'. The video came with the deluxe package on a wooden USB thumb drive.

Music
In 2008 (directly after the solo exhibition Two Crosses) Waller embarked on creating music & sound for the first time. Upon hearing early demos Cornish film maker Mark Jenkin used four of Waller's songs in his 2011 feature film 'Happy Christmas'.

In September 2011 Waller set up Flawedcore Records, an independent label created to release his own sound and music material.