Danny Young is a Welsh Sculptor, currently based in London. He completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2024 and is interested in narrating the societal difficulties and experiences surrounding Social Class, through referencing his own Welsh, working-class background.
His work is interested in showcasing a visual culture, underrepresented within contemporary sculpture, which is enriched in its own aesthetic, taste, language and imagery that convenes an excluded identity and culture within our society. As a gay male his work also looks to highlight common experiential issues surrounding masculinity and queerness within the roots of working-class communities. Through the oppression of love and gay affection/sex and the history and continued act of cruising. He also is interested in the relationships within the fetishisation of the ‘scally/ chav’ in the gay community through its desired depiction of masculinity.
Through Humour, play and sincerity, his work depicts ‘common’ culture and showcases the rough and unapologetic beauty of the Working-class.