Danie Mellor
Danie Mellor is an Australian artist who was the winner of 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, Australian painter and sculptor
13 April 1971
Born on the same birth date (13 April 1971): Bo Outlaw • Franck Esposito
Born on the same birth day (13 April): April 13 • Arthur Fadden • Claude Cheysson • Dave Albritton • Frederick North, Lord North • Herbert Yardley • Jonathan Brandis • Josh Reynolds (rugby league) • Julius Nyerere • Len Cook • Louis II, Duke of Bavaria • Melvin Gordon • Nellie McKay • Peabo Bryson • Ron Perlman • Stanley Donen • Steve Camp
Born in the same month (April 1971): Allan Houston • Bridget Moynahan • Cameron Blades • Franck Esposito • Jay DeMarcus • John Zandig • Leo Fortune-West • Miguel Calero • Peter Canavan • Philippe Carbonneau • Simona Cavallari (actress) • Todd Woodbridge • Victoria Hamilton