Join Umbrella's Deputy Director Daniel Qualischefski for a session providing writing conventions and styles for artist texts, paired with strategies and advice. This session is intended to build on artists' skills and knowledge to present and elevate themselves, their practice and their art professionally. Daniel will guide participants through Umbrella's exhibition application web page, noting the similarities and differences with other galleries’ application processes. Participants will also be guided with standard information to include for artist CVs, biographies and artist statements, along with tips for exhibition statements and proposals. 

Participants are encouraged to bring their own notepads and pens or laptops and any relevant images of or texts about their artwork or CVs to make notes on. Umbrella recommends attending this workshop if you are considering applying for an exhibition at Umbrella (application deadline midnight Sunday 7 September 2025) or elsewhere, or promoting your artwork online.

Previous participant testimonials from Writing artist texts sessions:
“Daniel is very knowledgeable and open, a great workshop host.”
“An excellent session on applying for exhibitions.”
“Daniel was very informative and had extensive experience with examples which made the workshop easy to follow and understand.”
“Information was thoroughly prepared and well presented.”
“Clear communication of ideas and good examples; Information was practical and relevant."
“Very engaging.- always good to hear professional artists' perspective and experience of the process.”
“I really appreciate Daniel’s teaching style. He is clear and confident about his knowledge while remaining highly accessible and friendly.”

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Daniel Qualischefski is a curator, arts professional and artist who has worked in regional and contemporary galleries across eastern Australia. His roles have encompassed exhibition and project management, including budgeting and successfully applying for grants, design, public programs, marketing and collection management. Daniel has delivered a number of significant projects at Umbrella, including co-curating with Kate O'Hara the nationally touring POSTWORLD exhibition, and curating the NAFA-commissioned FORCED PERSPECTIVE. In partnership with Townsville City Galleries, Daniel has also managed four years of the Transitions program, providing mentorship, critique and development for emerging North Queensland visual artists. Daniel was the 2023 recipient of a Museums and Galleries Queensland funded mentorship at the National Gallery of Australia and a participant in the 2021 QAGOMA Art as Exchange program on Girramay Country / Cardwell, North Queensland.
Daniel holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne, 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 2023 UniSQ School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow. Daniel also creates multidisciplinary work under the artist pseudonym of Danish Quapoor. He has had work, reviews and writing published in the Journal of Australian Ceramics, Art Guide, Imprint and Lemonade Letters.
Image: Daniel Qualischefski. Photographer: Amber Haines.