2022 ACE Studio Program artist: Dani Reynolds

Dani Reynolds is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of absurdity and sincerity. Their creative process utilises ‘not knowing’ and failure as desirable states from which to develop new work.  Experimentation, humour and collaboration are key to the development of paintings, sculpture, performance and moving images. Reynolds’ completed First Class Honours at Victoria College of Arts in 2016.

Reynolds’ recent exhibitions and performances include Trade-off, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, 2021; Emile Zile and No Clients Fair Exchange for National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2019; Field Theory’s ICON at Federation Square, 2018; Canine Choreography, Next Wave’s Kickstart Helix Program, 2017, and Next Wave Festival, 2018; and Come What May (with Mallory Allen), Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2017. Reynolds’ was one of five artists selected to perform Madison Bycroft: Antihero, as part of Feedback Loops, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2019. Reynolds’ is a recipient of the Artistes en Résidence 100-days research residency in Clermont-Ferrand (France), commencing December 2022.

The 2022 Studio Program is supported by the City of Adelaide.