Danie Mellor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Danie Mellor
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Apr 13, 1971(1971-04-13)
Age	53
Birthplace	Mackay
Country	Australia
Birth City	Queensland
Horoscope	Aries

Danie Mellor Biography

Danie Mellor is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on April 13, 1971 in Mackay, Queensland, Australia.

Mellor was born in Mackay, Queensland, in 1971. His father was of American and Australian descent; his mother had Irish, Mamu, Ngagen, and Ngajan heritage. Mellor’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Eleanor Kelly, and great- grandmother, May Kelly, were Indigenous Australian people from the rainforest country around Cairns. The family was peripatetic: in his first twenty years, Mellor lived in Mackay, Queensland; Scotland; Brisbane, Queensland; Sutton Grange, Victoria; Adelaide, South Australia; and Cape Town, South Africa, as well as in the Northern Territory. Mellor went to school at Steiner Schools in South Australia and South Africa; in high school he was taught art by his mother. Looking back at the influence of his schooling upon his art, he remarked how, despite the Eurocentric origins of Rudolf Steiner’s approach to education, “there are comparable elements and themes inherent in [Steiner’s] philosophical narrative that parallel an Indigenous outlook, which is holistic in the way it approaches deeper and more intuitive readings of the environment and landscape.”

Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertaking tertiary studies at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University (ANU) and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts. He works in different media including printmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Considered a key figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art, the dominant theme in Mellor’s art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures.

Danie Mellor Net Worth

Danie Mellor is one of the richest Artist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Danie Mellor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The stuffed parrot and upside-down cockatoo that hang above the landscape recall the bizarre renditions of these birds produced by European artists following the eighteenth century European voyages of discovery to Australia. In front of the ‘landscape’ are two mosaic kangaroo ‘messengers.’ One kangaroo points to the painting. Another covers his ears in a ‘hear no evil’ gesture, graphically signifying how under the black armband view of history … , the oral history accounts of Indigenous people have been largely ignored. This work recalls the museum dioramas in which Aboriginal people, who until 1967 were classified under the Flora and Fauna act, appeared amongst exotic taxidermy objects.

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Primavera 2005, an annual exhibition of young artists’ work held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, included Mellor’s work Fig 1-100 (This particular collection made sense), a mixed media composition that included specimens of Ulysses butterflies. He has had numerous other exhibitions, both individually and as part of group shows, at galleries including the Queensland Art Gallery in 2003, the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in 2006, and the Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards, at Shepparton Gallery in Victoria in 2007.

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Daniel Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Danie Mellor celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.

Mellor’s extensive scholarly art education has led to his art having a strong theoretical base. In interviews he has acknowledged the influence of diverse artists, including Indigenous painter Rover Thomas, Australian Sulman Prize winner Tim Storrier, Romantic painters including Germany’s Caspar David Friedrich, and contemporary German artists Joseph Beuys, and Beuys’ student Anselm Kiefer. He has harnessed a wide range of media during his career, including printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture utilising wood, glass, steel and ceramics, as well as a range of more unorthodox materials, as his 2007 Indigenous Art Triennial entry demonstrated. Reflecting on that sculpture, Artlink Magazine’s reviewer, Daniel Thomas, remarked on how the work signified “how colonisers always get things wrong; how Europeans looking for China, and its fine porcelain manufactures, stumbled instead upon the land of the kangaroo, and traded and planted ideas of racial and cultural superiority”.

Is Danie Mellor indigenous?

Mellor is of mixed Scottish and Aboriginal descent , his maternal forebears hailing from the Mamu, Ngagen and Ngajan peoples of Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands.

Why does Danie Mellor use blue and white?

He has settled on the use of blue and white as a way of referencing back into a cultural tradition that has deep resonance in the colonisation of Australia.

When was Danie Mellor born?

April 13, 1971 (age 51 years)

Where was Danie Mellor born?

Mackay, Australia