Reading his palm Bob and Roberta Smith declared Daniel Lehan to be: The Most Stubborn Artist I Have Ever Met ! Frog Morris - Curator, Poet and Performer - says: Daniel's works often begin with simple instructions that any man, or woman, in the street can follow: 'Make a sign saying what you want', 'write down your darkest thoughts', 'collect unusual stories from the newspaper',
Reading his palm Bob and Roberta Smith declared Daniel Lehan to be: The Most Stubborn Artist I Have Ever Met ! Frog Morris - Curator, Poet and Performer - says: Daniel's works often begin with simple instructions that any man, or woman, in the street can follow: 'Make a sign saying what you want', 'write down your darkest thoughts', 'collect unusual stories from the newspaper', 'draw a pie chart of your emotional life'. He uses understated calm and reassuring charm to encourage people to interact and create these works with him. The end products are a rich patchwork of thoughts and ideas gathered up from the minutiae of people's lives. Elaine Arkell - Artist - has declared: Daniel is a cross between The Cat Who Walks By Himself, and The Cheshire Cat ! Daniel Lehan - former paperboy, choirboy, shop assistant, ice cream seller, chip shop manager, petrol pump attendant, pub caterer, post office worker, theatre usher, cleaner, adult education tutor, leaflet distributor, front of house manager, t-shirt designer, screen printer, gardener, teacher.
RESIDENCIES
If These Walls Could Speak - Axeneo7, Quebec, Canada, 2012
Play Spots - South London Gallery, London, 2012
Lokal-Int - Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, 2011
Making Play - South London Gallery, London, 2010
You're The Boss - Chisenhale Gallery and Vital Arts, London, 2009
Helsinki Artist-In-Residence Programme, Finland, 2009
COMMISSIONS
Text Mural - The Sisters Of The Order Of None Head - The Beer Shop, Nunhead, London, 2016
Text Mural - Things To Do To Make Your Day Better - South London Gallery, 2010
Participatory Artwork - The Public Acts, The Public, West Bromwich, 2008
COLLECTIONS
University of the West of England, Bristol - Bower Ashton Library, and Centre for Fine Print Archive
Foundation Jan Michalski, Switzerland
Artist Book Collection, Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, London
Jeremy Cooper, Artist Postcard Collection, London
The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Jaipur, Dehli, and Agra, Travels Into Riso Print, BookArtBookShop, London, 2018
The British Wives Of Aliens, BookArtBookShop, London, 2016
I Am Not An Artist, AXENE07, Quebec, 2013
If These Walls Could Speak, AXENEO7, Quebec, 2008
Davina and Daniel - Open Surgery, The Surgery, London, 2007
BOAST, Wiebke Morgan Gallery, London, 2007
Davina and Daniel - Eight Weeks Of Change, Space Station Sixty-Five, London, 2007
Davina and Daniel - lonely heARTs, Space Station Sixty-Five, London, 2000
Dawn to Dusk, The Bull Arts Centre, London, 1996
Drawings, Lewisham Theartre, London, 1990
Drawings, Arts Theatre, London, 1986
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
International
Vague d'Art, Centre d'Exposition L'Imagier, Quebec, Canada, 2011
1st International Biel City Zine Weeks, Lokal-Int, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, 2011
Uber!Pusch!, Hottingerstrasse 4, Zurich, Switzerland, 2010
About Now, Perla-Mode, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009
Subversive Fair, Linz, Austria, 2009
Galerie Tam Tam, Leiden, Nederlands, 2008
You Find Yourself Here, RAP architectuurcentrum, Leiden, Netherlands, 2007
Printing Matters!, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004
Berlin Book Fair, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, 2004
United Kingdom
Scribbling & Scrawling, The Museum of Futures, The Writers Centre, Surbiton, 2018
Art / Convertors, Studio 1:1 Gallery London, 2016
Peckham Platform Open (15), London, 2016
Animallage - The Poetry Society, London, 2015
Pool, Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2015
Annual Open (31) Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2015
Summer Salon, Angus Hughes Gallery, London, 2015
Peckham Platform Open (15) London, 2015
BAG Exchange Festival, London, 2014
The Nunhead Open, London, 2014
Sketch, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada, 2012
The Nunhead Open, London, 2012
Annual Open, Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2011
The Cut, [SPACE], London, 2011
The Cut, Olympic ViewTube Site, London, 2011
The Nunhead Open, Nunhead, London, 2011
Above The Serious, The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London, 2010
At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknall, 2010
James Taylor Project 10, James Taylor Gallery, London, 2010
Lines Of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales, 2010
NierghtravAOnWint’sIf A Teller, Gooden Gallery, London, 2010
Peckham Space Open, London, 2010
The Nunhead Open, London, 2009
Age And Memory, Orleans House Gallery, London, 2009
Annual Open, Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2009
Ishihara, Kube Gallery, Dorset, 2009
Police And Violence, Presented by The Guy Hilton Gallery at The Sassoon Gallery, London, 2009
Publish And Be Damned Fair, Oxford House, London, 2009
The Wild As Will And Mediation, Wiebke Morgan, London, 2009
Travelling Alone, Waterside Project Space, London, 2008
Cafe Gallery Annual Open, Bermondsey, London, 2008
Meet The Artists, Orleans House Gallery, London, 2008
Suburbia Revisited, Wiebke Morgan, London, 2008
The King and I, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, 2008
The Nunhead Open, London, 2008
A Blakean Birthday Party, Tate Britain, London, 2007
Abandoned Chairs, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, 2007
ArtSway Open07, ArtsSway, Hampshire, 2007
Beneath The Tarmac The Grass, Bromley House Library, Nottingham, 2007
Annual Open, Cafe Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2007
Deviant Art Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Trolhatten, 2007
lonely heARTs, The Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania, 2007
Nunhead Open, The Surgery, London, 2007
Peer Esteem, Five Years, London, 2007
Smallworks, Mantle Arts, Leicester, 2006
I & Me, Studio Voltaire, London, 2006
Fred, various locations, Cumbria, 2006
The Stars Down To Earth, The Nunnery, London, 2005
a Mart: The Art Supermarket, Ale and Porter Arts, Wiltshire, 2005
A.A.A.B.A.M In America, West Coast Festival of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, 2005
A.A.A.B.A.M UPSTAIRS, The Upstairs Gallery, London, 2005
ArtSway Open 05, ArtSway, Hampshire, 2005
Gorgeously Repulsive, University Gallery, University of Essex, 2005
Grounds For Designs, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, London, 2005
Kiosk (XIV), Istanbul Biennial 2005, Turkey, 2005
Kiosk (XV) Modes of Multiplication, ICA, London, 2005
Roman Roadparty, London, 2005
Abandon, Substation Project Space, Margate, 2004
Coverage, M + R Gallery, London, 2004
Embroidery At The Bull, artsdepot, London, 2004
Love And Bullets, Transition Gallery, London, 2004
Margate Rocks, Thanet Contemporary Arts Festival, Kent, 2004
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, 2004
Outdoor Habitats, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, London, 2004
State Of Independence, Leswin Place and Ilex Works, London, 2004
The Sex Show, Lotus Gallery, Bath, 2004
What's That In The Woods?, Millfield Arts Centre, London, 2004
You Are Here Festival, Nottingham, 2003
Annual Open, Café Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2003
Bow Arts Trust Open Studios, Bow, London, 2003
Come On You Intellectuals, Deptford X Festival, London, 2003
Feast, Miller's House, London, 2003
Flinch, sevenseven gallery, London, 2003
Margate Rocks, Thanet Contemporary Arts Festival, Kent, 2003
Nth Art Show, Ols & Co, London, 2003
Reduced, Century Gallery, London, 2003
Souvenir, Transition Gallery, London, 2003
Wellmade 3, Stratford, London, 2002
Annual Open, Café Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2002
Well-made 2, Stratford, London, 2001
Annual Open, Café Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 2001
The Florence Trust, London 2001
Raw Canvas Show, Aldwych, London, 2001
Self Service Painting, Five Years, London, 2001
Thirteen, The Florence Trust, London, 2000
Cable Street Open, London, 1998
Annual Open, Café Gallery, Bermondsey, London, 1995
The Genitals Are Beauty, The House of William Blake, London, 1992
2nd Coming, South London Art Gallery, London, 1990
Southwark Open, South London Gallery, London, 1989
1986 - Printing is Easy, Woodlands Gallery, London, 1986
CURATED PROJECTS
The Kitchen Window Gallery June 2014 to June 2015 - monthly exhibitions and performances featuring British, Canadian, and European artists http://thekitchenwindowgallery.blogspot.co.uk
Founder member of This Happy Band - a troubadour style collective of artists and performers - performances at The Barbican Centre, Cabaret Voltaire - Zurich, The Camberwell Festival, Dead Season Live Art Festival, The Nunhead Festival, The South London Gallery
Artist Faire L’Artiste, Le Temporarie, Quebec, 2012
The Austerity Olympics, Pump House Gallery, London, 2011
A Commemoration Of The Lives Of Nicole Lehan and Daniel Polonsky, Carnivale, London 2010
YOUR ART HERE (TOO), Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2009
50 NOT OUT!, The Montague Arms, London, 2009
This Happy Band, The Nunhead Festival, Nunhead, 2009
YOUR ART HERE, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2008
BINGO, The Nunhead Festival, London, 2007
I & ME TOO, Studio Voltaire and Cubitt Gallery, London, 2004
The Good, The Bad, And The ..., Campbell Works, London, 2003
Last Days In The Garden, Ashley Gardens, London
LIVE ART / PERFORMANCE
I AM A SQUARE, Action Pulpeuse Number 5, New Art Projects, London
The Libary At Night, Goldsmiths College, London 2016
Cahier de catéchèse book launch, Full Stop, London, 2013
Poetry & Paint, Craft Central, London, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe Evening, The Constitution in Camden, London, 2012
Nuit Blanche, Ottawa City, Canada, 2012
Obituary Times: The Communist Gallery in Leeds, 2012
LAB / East Street Arts, Leeds, 2012
Poetry Platform, Netil House, Hackney, London, 2012
ScaleDown, The King and Queen, Fitzrovia, London, 2012
SpeakEasy, The Underground, Hastings, 2012
Spoonful Of Poison, The Stags Head, Hoxton, London, 2012
Survivors Poetry, Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden, London, 2012
What’s In The Bag, The Constitution in Camden, London, 2011
A Commemoration Of The Lives Of Nicole Lehan And Daniel Plonsky, Carnivale, London, 2011
Acoustic Sessions, Angus Hughes Gallery, London, 2011
Chutney Preserves, The School of Chutney, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2011
Mermaid Song and Lustrous Balm, The Pharmacy of Stories, London, 2011
The Royal Act, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland 2011
This Happy Band, South London Gallery, London, 2011
This Happy Band At Green Plot, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2010
Animal Fair, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2010
Create YourTopias, Brixton, London, 2010
Daniel Lehan Presents . . ., shift, London, 2010
Dead Season Live Art, Margate, Kent 2010
This Happy Band, Dead Season Live Art, Margate, Kent, 2010
Starry Stary Night, The Montague Arms, London, 2010
Super Heroes Night, The Montague Arms, London, 2010
The Montague Arms Festival, London, 2010
The Vaults Bazaar, The Vaults, Birmingham, 2010
This Happy Band, South London Gallery, London, 2010
Vote This Happy Band!, Vyner Street, London, 2010
Witch Night, The Montague Arms, London, 2009
Contested Ground, 176 Gallery, London, 2009
Loud And Quiet Poems, The Montague Arms, London, 2009
MICROSQUIB, The Montague Arms, London, 2009
One Sandwich Short Of A Picnic, A Cafe Muses Event, London, 2009
Role Of The Village Idiot, Peckham Square, London, 2009
ScrapBookTales, The Montague Arms, London, 2009
The Big Event, Myatt's Fields Park, Camberwell, 2009
The Nights Of The Arts, Helsinki, Helsinki, 2009
This Happy Band, The Barbican Centre, London, 2009
Utrophia @ Shunt, Shunt, London, 2009
BonkersFest, Camberwell, London, 2008
Free Art Fair, London, 2008
Micro Performance, The Montague Arms, London, 2008
Old Chaps Night, The Montague Arms, London, 2008
Play On Words, The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, Norwich, 2008
Puppenspielerei, Wiebke Morgan, Bethnal Green 2008
Scene In The Making, Concrete and Glass Festival, London, 2008
Stage Struck, Southwark Playhouse, London, 2008
Stone Cold Sober Evening, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2008
Subliminal Seduction, Oxford Street, London, 2008
Suburbia, The Foreign Press Association, London, 2008
Uncle Jeepsie's Valentine Special, The Montague Arms, London, 2008
Walk HERE, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2007
Bad Boy Billy Blake's Big Birthday Bash, The Ivy House, London, 2007
BonkersFest, Camberwell, London, 2007
Gorilla In The Roses, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2007
House About That!, Streatham, London, 2007
Liberty Festival, Trafalgar Square, London, 2007
Nickolaus Tag Event, Wiebke Morgan, London, 2007
Peckham Petastic 3, Peckham, London, 2007
Peripatetic Proverbs, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2007
Service Wash Tales, Camberwell Arts Festival, London, 2007
Street Recipes, Campbell Works, London, 2007
The Curse Of Me, The Old Truman Brewery, London, 2006
Jumble It Up, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, 2006
Splashdown, Whitstable, Whitstable Biennale, Kent, 2006
INTERVENTIONS
Cardboard Poems, installed in various locations around London, 2012
Cardboard Poems, installed various locations in the City of Ottawa, Canada, 2011
SIDESHOW, various locations, Nottingham, 2006
See & Collect, Consume Peckham, Peckham, 2008
HERE, Camberwell Arts Festival, London 2008
ARTIST TALKS
AXENEO7, Quebec, Canada, 2011
Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2011
The Society For Curious Thought, London, 2011
RADIO INTERVIEWS
Radio Croydon - Readings from The Morning Glories - 2016
Resonance Radio - Discussion of collage work - 2015
Radio Croydon - Poetry reading - 2014
Radio Canada - Discussion of work made for Nuit Blanche event in Ottawa, 2012
POETRY READINGS
Wisdom's Press Launch, In The Pink Poetry, Pembroke College, Oxford, 2017
Unplugged - The Poetry Cafe - London, 2015
Tree Reading Series - Ottawa - Canada, 2014
The Montague Arms - New Cross - London
Beyond Words - Gypsy Hill Tavern - London
The South London Gallery, London
The Whitechapel Gallery, London
PUBLICATIONS
Visual Texts
The New Concrete - Hayward Publishing - 2015 https://thenewconcrete.wordpress.com/about
AND / OR - November 2015
Indefinite Space - 2015
Poetry & Paint Issues 3 and 4 2013 / 2014
Small Portions - 2014
This Is Visual Poetry - chapbookpublisher.com - 2013
The Delinquent - Issue 19 2012
The Cut - [SPACE] publications - 2010
Night Time - Acme Studios and South London Gallery - 2009
Online
Ditch
Ink Sweat & Tears http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages//?s=daniel+lehan
Experiential / Experimental
Kumquat http://kumquatpoetry-blog.tumblr.com/search/daniel+lehan+
Postcard Shorts
foam:e, http://www.foame.org/Issue11/poems/lehan.html
Diagram
* 82 Review http://www.star82review.com/2.1/lehan-cardboard.html
SHUF
M58 http://www.m58.co.uk/search/daniel+lehan+
SPUR
M58 http://www.m58.co.uk/search/daniel+lehan+
The Star Gazette
Small Portions https://smallportionsjournal.com/2014/09/25/daniel-lehan- lettershaped/
STORIES
The Morning Glories - Wisdom Bottom’s Press - 2016
DRAWINGS
Cahier de Catéchèse, Dark Windows Press - 2013
CONTRIBUTIONS TO
The Blue Notebook, Impact Press, UWE Bristol - 2017
Art - Speak, REcreative - 2015
Alpine Phantoms, on the fantastic lure of the mountains, Dark Windows Press - 2012
Surrealism And The Uncanny - Dark Windows Press - 2011
The Sound Of Surrealism - Dark Windows Press - 2011
The Cat Came As A Tomato: conversations on contemporary art and play from the South London Gallery - 2011
Intoart: See The Revolutionary Art Exhibit - 2010
The Wild Pansy Press Book Of Rainy Day Activities - Wild Pansy Press - 2009
Night Time - Acme Studios and South London Gallery - 2009
EPOCH, introduction for exhibition by Christopher Campbell - 2006
PROJECT / EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Katalog - Number 12, Lokal-Int, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland - 2011
NierghtravAOnWint’sIf - a book in 8 chapters and 4 dimensions - Wild Pansy Press - 2011
Social Club 09 / 10 - East Street Arts - 2011
Lines Of Desire - Oriel Davies Gallery - 2010
Textile 07 - Kaunas Biennial - 2007
Abandoned Chairs - Norwich Arts Centre - 2007
You Find Yourself Here - 2007
Sideshow (2) - Sideshow Publications - 2006
The Stars Down To Earth - Nunnery Gallery - London - 2005
Gorgeously Repulsive - University Gallery, Univeristy of Essex - 2005
Mostyn Open - 2004
WORKSHOPS DEVISED AND DELIVERED FOR
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood
Bow Arts Trust
The British Museum
Chisenhale Gallery
Create Arts
Creative Routes
Emergency Exit Arts
The Foundling Museum
Gasworks
The Geffrye Museum
London Borough of Greenwich
The Hackney Museum
The ICA
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
The Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
Lewisham Theatre
The Livesey Museum
The National Maritime Museum Greenwich
London Borough of Newham
Orleans House Gallery
Pupil Referral Centre, Teddington
The South Bank Centre
[SPACE]
St Paul’s Art Space
The South London Gallery
Studio Voltaire
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Whitechapel Gallery
Wilton’s Music Hall