Danie Mellor

Danie Mellor is an Australian artist. He was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. His mother is of Irish, Mamu, Ngagen, and Ngajan heritage.

About Danie Mellor in brief

Danie Mellor is an Australian artist. He was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Mellor was born in Mackay, Queensland, and grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University, and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He is now a lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, within the University of Sydney. His works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Art Award exhibitions. His work has had numerous other exhibitions, both individually and as part of group shows at galleries across Australia and Canada. He has also had international recognition with representation in the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition of international indigenous art. His mother is of Irish, Mamu, Ngagen, and Ngajan heritage. His maternal great-great-grandmother, Eleanor Kelly, and great- grandmother, May Kelly, were Indigenous Australian people from the rainforest country around Cairns. He lives in Sydney with his wife Joanne Kennedy, and works in printmaking and drawing, as well as painting, sculpture, and ceramics. He won the principal prize, for a mixed media work From Rite to Ritual, for his print Cyathea cooperi, in 2009. His other major exhibitions have included the Primavera 2005 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial in 2007.

In 2012, his work was included in the National Museum of Australia’s exhibition Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture. He also represented in the Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards at Shepparton Gallery in Victoria in 2007, and in the Queensland Art Gallery in 2003, the Canberra Museum in 2003 and the Art Gallery of Queensland in 2003. In the early 2000s, he entered a doctorate at the ANU, where he also taught print-media and drawing. He completed his PhD in 2004. As of 2013, he is married to artist JoanneKennedy, with whom he has two children. His art has been exhibited in Australia, Belgium, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom. His pieces have also been purchased for the Northern Territory’s public collection by the Australian Museum of Art in Canberra, an annual exhibition of young artists’ work held at the museum of contemporary art. In 2003, his mezzotint print, portraying tree ferns native to the Queensland rainforest, was highly commended. In 2005, Untitled in 2005, Excendent Vision in 2008, and A Transcendent vision in 2008 was purchased for an exhibition at the Northern Territories Art Gallery. In 2010, an academic expressed surprise that Mellor’s work had neither attracted an award nor been bought for the public collection.

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