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)

Installation view, ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Danie Mellor ‘redux’ 2022. Photographic print on mirror polished stainless steel 143 x 139.5 cm [irregular]. From the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Danie Mellor ‘The far country’ 2022. Chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper face-mounted to clear acrylic two panels 180 x 240 cm overall. From the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Installation view, ‘Bala Yubanday: The Persistent Light’ from the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Bala Yubanday: The Persistent Light – Danie Mellor ‘The riverbend (balan yuralbarra)’ 2022 from the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Bala Yubanday: The Persistent Light – Danie Mellor ‘The persistent light (bala yubanday)’ 2022 Bala Yubanday – place where spirit comes. Chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper 54 x 78 cm, framed with white gesso frame. From the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Bala Yubanday: The Persistent Light – Danie Mellor ‘The emerald forest (bala dulgul)’ 2022 Bala dulgul – very dense or ‘middle’ rainforest. Chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper 118 x 204 cm. From the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Bala Yubanday: The Persistent Light – Danie Mellor ‘Bulurru: no north or south’ 2022 Bulurru – dreamtime. Chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper 54 x 78 cm, framed with white gesso frame. From the exhibition ‘redux’, 29 April – 21 May 2022
Danie Mellor ‘A History of Images’, October 2021. Installation view by Andrew Curtis
Danie Mellor ‘A History of Images’, October 2021. Detail view by Andrew Curtis