14 Facts About Danie Mellor

Danie Mellor then took up a post lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts.

The family was peripatetic: in his first twenty years, Danie 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.

Danie Mellor went to school at Steiner Schools in South Australia and South Africa; in high school he was taught art by his mother.

Danie Mellor 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.

Since graduating, Danie Mellor has won several awards, including the Canberra Critic's Choice Award in 2006, and the $15,000 John Tallis National Works on Paper Acquisitive Award in 2008.

Also in that year, Danie Mellor's work was featured alongside that of Patricia Piccinini and Cherry Hood in the Newcastle Region Art Gallery's show Animal Attraction.

Danie Mellor was selected for inclusion in that year's Blake Prize, with his work Bulluru Storywater.

Danie Mellor received international recognition in 2013, when he was included in Sakahan, the National Gallery of Canada's "most ambitious contemporary art exhibition in its history".

Public regional galleries that have collected Danie Mellor's creations include Newcastle Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales, and Warrnambool Art Gallery in Victoria.

Danie Mellor is represented in the Australian government's collection, Artbank, as well as in large, private collections such as the Kerry Stokes.

Danie Mellor's work featured as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, with a show titled Primordial: SuperNaturalBayiMinyjirral displayed at the National Museum of Scotland.

Danie Mellor 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.

Danie Mellor, in an artist's statement for the awards, described the work as showing "what is a moment of contact, a conversation and interaction between two cultures; it speaks of the challenges of settlement, and the differences in spiritual enactment and belief".

For Danie Mellor, Indigenous identity is a theme highlighted in his work and in public life.