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): Alan Jones (radio broadcaster) • Circle Repertory Company • Col Joye • Dana Barros • Edward Bruce (New Deal) • Eudora Welty • Frederick North, Lord North • Hendrik van Rheede • John W. Davis • Mahmoud Kahraba • Mikhail Shufutinsky • Orhan Veli Kanık • Philip Norman (author) • Ricky Schroder • Robert Abbe • Ron Perlman • Thomas Jefferson
Born in the same month (April 1971): Allan Houston • Bo Outlaw • Bridget Moynahan • Darren Jessee • David Tennant • Dong Abay • Emmanuel Collard • Gregg Zaun • Jacques Villeneuve • Jay DeMarcus • John Zandig • Kim Soo-nyung • Krista Allen • Kumar Dharmasena • Malik Yusef • Miguel Calero • Naoki Tanaka (comedian) • Nicholas Brendon • Oliver Riedel • Peter Canavan • Sara Baras • Selena • Simona Cavallari (actress) • Uli Herzner