Name: delphic Artist Talk
Start: 2024-10-26T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-26T11:00:00+10:00
Location: KEPK

Join KEPK and Melt Festival to hear from North Queensland based artist Danish Quapoor in conjunction with his latest solo exhibition 'delphic'. Quapoor will provide insights into his processes, concepts and the works on display, along with context of his broader multidisciplinary arts practice.
ARTIST TALK
10am Sat 26 Oct
OPEN
6-9pm Fri 25 Oct (Launch)
https://www.facebook.com/events/913514337286833
9am-1pm Sat 26 Oct
9am-1pm Sun 27 Oct
Free exhibition and events | Bookings are not required.
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: Danish Quapoor amidst selected works from 'delphic' and 'good grief', courtesy Townsville City Galleries. Photograph: Andrew Rankin.