Bio and Artist Statement
Danish Quapoor is the artist pseudonym of Daniel Qualischefski, born 1989, Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland, Australia. He is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer who has lived in regional south-east Queensland and metropolitan Victoria, and is now based on Gurambilbarra (Townsville). Quapoor draws upon and occasionally subverts his somewhat conservative upbringing, and his work extends to realisations, contradictions and absurdities within identity, relationships, religion and sexuality. The artist’s practice spans (or combines) ceramics, textiles, and illustrative painting, with forays into animation, collage and photography. He typically works in a flat-colour style in which stylised biomorphic and geometric forms float amidst sparse compositions.
In his 15 years of exhibiting, Quapoor has held eight major and six minor solo exhibitions, been a lead artist in six collaborative exhibitions, and participated in over 70 group exhibitions. He has completed and facilitated diverse art projects, commissions, residencies, murals and workshops, predominantly in Queensland and Victoria. Quapoor holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Creative Arts), Honours from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). He was the inaugural UniSQ School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow (2023).
The artist was selected for Outerspace’s online SUPERCUT project (2022), and for QAGOMA’s Art as Exchange program on Girramay Country (Cardwell, North Queensland, 2021). He held a solo exhibition at the Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA, 2018), and illustrated more than 15 collections of African Children’s Stories (Dūcere Foundation, 2015-2018). Quapoor has had work, reviews and writing published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, Art Guide, Imprint and Lemonade Letters. As a curator and artsworker, Quapoor’s roles have encompassed managing and coordinating exhibitions, marketing, public programs and collection management. He finds that making art informs his work in galleries, and vice versa.
In his 15 years of exhibiting, Quapoor has held eight major and six minor solo exhibitions, been a lead artist in six collaborative exhibitions, and participated in over 70 group exhibitions. He has completed and facilitated diverse art projects, commissions, residencies, murals and workshops, predominantly in Queensland and Victoria. Quapoor holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Creative Arts), Honours from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). He was the inaugural UniSQ School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow (2023).
The artist was selected for Outerspace’s online SUPERCUT project (2022), and for QAGOMA’s Art as Exchange program on Girramay Country (Cardwell, North Queensland, 2021). He held a solo exhibition at the Biennale of Australian Art (BOAA, 2018), and illustrated more than 15 collections of African Children’s Stories (Dūcere Foundation, 2015-2018). Quapoor has had work, reviews and writing published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, Art Guide, Imprint and Lemonade Letters. As a curator and artsworker, Quapoor’s roles have encompassed managing and coordinating exhibitions, marketing, public programs and collection management. He finds that making art informs his work in galleries, and vice versa.
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