Dani River King

About the works

Flowers in the rain, 2023
$300

Slip drawing, 2023
$300

Dinosaur colour house, 2023
$500

earthenware ceramic, slip, underglaze, clear glaze

My art explores themes of identity, gender, neurodiversity and disability as well as objects of sentimentality, comfort and play. My practice features ceramic sculptures, vessels and wall hanging plates and slabs. They are often decorated with references to cartoons and video games such as Pokemon and Adventure Time as well as children’s toys and include childlike overtones as a way of maintaining a mix of light-heartedness and emotional depth.

Working with ceramics allows me to build my canvas. It helps me integrate the drawing into the composition and makes the drawing feel part of the work instead of on top of the work because I created both. The collaboration between image and medium helps it feel more resolved.

About Dani River King

Dani is an autistic, queer and non-binary emerging artist working on Gadigal Land in Sydney. They work across the mediums of ceramics, drawing, photography and poetry. Dani completed their Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in ceramics at The National Art School in 2019 and now has a studio at kil.n.it in Glebe. They are the founder of Fluid Thinking Magazine, a publication centring on marginalised emerging artists. Their ceramic work Red Crown, I did the best I could was chosen by Amber Creswell Bell for ACB selects as part of the 2023 National Emerging Art Prize.

Top image: Dani River King, Dinosaur colour house, 2023. Photo: Courtesy the Artist.