Daniel Boyd (born 1982) is an Australian contemporary artist working in painting, sculpture and installation.
[2] He began drawing as a child, and sold illustrations and paintings of the Great Barrier Reef to tourists.
[3] Boyd first rose to prominence with his No Beard series of mocking oil portraits of colonial Australian historical figures, which he started in 2005.
[3] In 2010 he created Seven Versions of the Sun, a large sculpture commissioned by the Queensland Government and displayed publicly in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.
[4] His work satirises the "Eurocentric" view of colonial Australian history, including depictions of James Cook, Joseph Banks, Arthur Phillip and King George III as pirates.