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): Aaron Lewis • Alexander Mitchell (engineer) • April 13 • Christopher Hitchens • Dadasaheb Torne • Dana Barros • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Drago Jančar • Edward Fox (actor) • Eudora Welty • Garry Kasparov • Gianni Marzotto • Hendrik van Rheede • John-Allison Weiss • Josephine Butler • Judy Nunn • Leopold Fitzinger • Nam Hae-il • Pierre Molinier • Robert Enrico • Seamus Heaney • Sorcha Boru

Born in the same month (April 1971): Al Reyes • Austin Berry (footballer) • Cameron Blades • David Tennant • Emmanuel Collard • Finidi George • Gregg Zaun • Jay DeMarcus • Karl Turner (British politician) • Kim Soo-nyung • Krista Allen • Malik Yusef • Michael Turner (comics) • Miguel Calero • Naoki Tanaka (comedian) • Nelson Parraguez • Sonia Bisset • Victor Kraatz