“My work explores details of our everyday environments that are overlooked or insignificant, fleeting or peripheral. Conceptual and aleatoric methodologies are employed in order to abdicate total conscious control over the products of my creative practise.”
The works on display at TradeCity were made during a residency with Red Gate Gallery in Beijing in April 2009, which was supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester.
Since graduating from Manchester School of Art’s BA Interactive Arts in 2008, Daniel Staincliffe has exhibited with The VAULT Gallery, Lancaster and Startrunning, Manchester.

Interval's Curatorial Approach: Trade City

For TradeCity Interval presents three works that each introduce through their conceptual approach an alternative view on cities of trade; located in the three cities of Manchester, London and Beijing, the works reference Italo Calvino’s Trading Cities chapters in the book Invisible Cities. Interval is interested in the merging of identities of such global metropolises’ and how local nuances can be extracted and revealed through artistic practice.
 
The work of Daniel Staincliffe, the result of a recent residency in Beijing, collects and re-presents fragments of the city’s customs and traditions through relevant forms of display. Butler and Kyprianou’s One Lime Street, located in the iconic glass lifts of the Lloyds Building at the heart of London’s financial district, engages the viewer in a multi-layered dialogue with individuals as they move vertically through through the building. Phil Constable’s work builds layers of captured cityscapes, adapting and augmenting them in the form of hand printed graffiti on the walls of buildings. For TradeCity Constable has developed a performative method of working that will see the out-of--reach areas within the exhibition space publicly transformed into a new skyline.