North Queensland-based Australian curator + multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s practice spans / combines ceramics, textiles, and illustrative painting, with forays into animation, murals, collage and photography.
WINNER: 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize

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.