Art exhibition - 25 to 27 October
delphic presents selected works from North Queensland based artist Danish Quapoor's ‘good grief’ series alongside complementary new works. These include illustrative biomorphic paintings on shaped, stretched paper, and an abstract animation. The exhibited fluid forms will illuminate the artist’s interrogation of shifting personal identity, familial relationships and grievances, and otherness within heteronormative regional contexts. These themes are layered with ambiguity, humour and misdirection. The works are also unified by their style, ostensible simplicity and sparse compositions.
OPENING EVENT
6-9pm Fri 25 Oct
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ARTIST TALK
Quapoor will provide insights into his processes, concepts and the works on display, along with context of his broader multidisciplinary arts practice.
10am Sat 26 Oct
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GALLERY OPENING HOURS
Fri 25 Oct -6-9pm
Sat 26 Oct - 9am-1pm
Sun 27 Oct - 9am-1pm
Free exhibition and events | Bookings are not required.
ARTIST BIO
Danish Quapoor was born 1989, Tulmur / Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. He is a visual artist, curator and writer based on Gurambilbarra / Townsville. His multidisciplinary practice predominantly spans ceramics, textiles, and illustrative painting, with forays into animation, murals, collage and photography. The artist was recently awarded the 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize from Townsville City Galleries, and the inaugural 2023 School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). He was selected for Outerspace’s online SUPERCUT project (2022), and for QAGOMA’s Art as Exchange program on Girramay Country / Cardwell, North Queensland (2021). 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. 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 UniSQ. He has had work, reviews and writing published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, Art Guide, Imprint and Lemonade Letters.
Danish Quapoor - ‘delphic’ is presented by Melt. Melt Development Program is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Image (L to R): Danish Quapoor, ‘two worlds’ and ‘undocking’, 2021-22, Acrylic and paint pen on stretched paper, 40.5 x 50.5cm each. Photograph: Amanda Galea.
