Danie Mellor

Danie Mellor’s work is at once beautiful and a calling to account. Finely crafted, embellished and framed, with images and devices that disarm with humour, narrative and a play on the ‘exotic’, the work nonetheless confronts and confounds our understanding of the past. Mellor tells stories that are neither simple nor complete. Instead, the view is presented with multiple layers that challenge assumptions. Stories collide and metaphors reach further than expected.

Dr Campbell Gray, Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2014, page 11.

Listen to Danie Mellor interview on ABC RN The Drawing Room (11 May 2022)

Read an interview with Danie Mellor in The Age (28 April 2022)

DANIE MELLOR ‘Narratives’, 9 December – 16 December 2023, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR ‘Narratives’, 9 December – 16 December 2023, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR, ‘The camp at midday (Jimmy’s got a gun)’ 2023 Acrylic on linen with gesso and iridescent wash 152.5 x 213.5 cm, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR – Narratives ‘Before the corroboree (bayi barrngan) I,II,III’ installation view
DANIE MELLOR, ‘Before the corroboree (bayi barrngan) III’ detail.
DANIE MELLOR ‘Narratives’, 9 December – 16 December 2023, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR ‘Narratives’, 9 December – 16 December 2023, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR, ‘At the edge of twilight (paradise)’ acrylic on linen with gesso and gold iridescent wash 106.5 x 106.5 cm, installation view
DANIE MELLOR, ‘The sword bearer (balan bagur)’, ‘The shield bearers (balan bigin)’, each crylic on board with gesso and iridescent wash, 30 x 30 cm, installation view.
DANIE MELLOR, ‘The sword bearer (balan bagur)’ detail.