Daniel John Pilkington

Daniel John Pilkington is a poet, artist, and researcher living in Naarm. His artistic practice is closely related to his writing practice and is largely concerned with philosophical questions surrounding the nature of language. Working across visual poetry, text-based art, sculpture, animation, and printmaking, his work explores the limits and materiality of language, linguistic coincidences and iconicity, as well as the gestural relationships that exist between handwriting and drawing. He is particularly interested in the point at which language becomes image, object, or event. He is the author of the poetry chapbook ‘X’ (SOd Press 2026) and the scholarly monograph ‘Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2026).