Daniel McClellan
b. 1993

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Daniel McClellan is a Sydney-based abstract painter. McClellan approaches painting as a game, with rules and contexts to work within. McClellan’s practice also looks to music and architecture. Among other relations, games, music and architecture share interests in movement within constraints; notation; and structuring space and time.

McClellan completed his BFA (Painting), 2017, and his MFA (Painting), 2022, at the National Art School, Sydney. Upon graduation, he was the recipient of the prestigious Lift Off Award. In 2025, McClellan was a finalist in the Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. His work is held in the City of Sydney Collection, and private collections in Australia and Japan.