DANISH QUAPOOR

Danish Quapoor is an Australian multi/inter-disciplinary visual artist based on Gurambilbarra / Townsville. His practice includes work across textiles, illustrative painting and ceramics, with forays into animation, murals, collage and photography. Quapoor’s work often subverts his conservative upbringing, interrogating identity, relationships, religion and sexuality. He typically produces flat-colour works in which stylised forms float amidst sparse compositions.

Current:
- tightly wound - solo exhibition, Metro Arts, 29 March - 10 May 2025
Presented in partnership with Metro Arts and Firstdraft.

Forthcoming (2025):
- desolate vessels - solo exhibition, Vitrine space, Rockhampton Museum of Art (RMOA), August 2025 - January 2026

Recent:
- 2025 mural residency with solo exhibition outcome departed, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, 18 January – 30 March 2025
- 2024 solo exhibitions redux (Firstdraft), delphic (KEPK x Melt festival) and good grief (Townsville City Galleries)
- 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize winner, and finalist in the Gosford Art Prize and North Queensland Ceramic Awards

Images (L-R): 1.a. Danish Quapoor, the highest highs, the lowest lows, 2023-2024, Blown glass with hand-coiled and stitched baling twine, 20.5 x 8 x 7.5cm. b. Danish Quapoor, Maybe i (Maybe that's why dad had to get taken out), 2023-2024, Glass with hand-coiled and stitched baling twine and acrylic on Linden wood, 15 x 7.7 x 7.7cm. c. Danish Quapoor, things left unsaid (sentinel ii), 2023-2024, Hand-coiled and stitched baling twine, mid-fire black clay, clear gloss glaze and lustre, 15 x 10.5 x 9.5cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | 2. Danish Quapoor, the apple and the tree, 2023, Hand-pierced porcelain paperclay, body stain and clear gloss glaze, Dimensions variable upon installation. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | 3. Danish Quapoor, monolith to me, 2022-2024, Blown glass, hand-pierced mid-fire black clay, clear gloss glaze and lustre, 16.5 x 14 x 13.5cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | 4. Danish Quapoor, Leviathan (A Fine Lion Between Pleasure and Pain), 2020, Acrylic and paint pen on stretched paper, 40.5 x 50.5cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | 5. Danish Quapoor, salubrious, 2022, hand-pierced porcelain paperclay (with body stain and clear gloss glaze), Hand-pierced porcelain paperclay, body stain and clear gloss glaze, 11.5 x 12.5 x 11cm. | 6. Danish Quapoor, undocking, 2021, Acrylic and paint pen on stretched paper, 50.5 x 40.5cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | 7. Danish Quapoor, Urn’t you glad it’s not that fragile, 2021, Hand-coiled and stitched baling twine, 20 x 14.5 x 14.5cm. Photograph: Amanda Galea. | All works featured in recent good grief solo exhibition, Pinnacles Gallery, 2024.

Copyright Danish Quapoor © 2024 | [email protected] | Visual artist and artsworker, Gurambilbarra / Townsville, North Queensland, Australia.

I acknowledge the Wulgurukaba of Gurambilbarra and Yunbenun as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I live, work and create. I pay respect to their elders past and present.

All work is one of a kind, original artwork created by Danish Quapoor unless otherwise stated (i.e. in the case of collaborations or limited print runs). Images are digital photographs and presented as accurately as possible, however colours may appear slightly different in person.