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) • Alan Watt (diplomat) • April 13 • Arthur Matthew Weld Downing • Baron Davis • Ben Nighthorse Campbell • Frederick North, Lord North • Garry Kasparov • Gianni Marzotto • Hendrik van Rheede • James Ensor • Max Mosley • Melvin Gordon • Orlando Letelier • Philippe de Rothschild • Rae Johnstone • Tim Krabbé

Born in the same month (April 1971): Cameron Blades • Carlos Pérez (pitcher) • Darren Jessee • Karl Turner (British politician) • Krista Allen • Leo Fortune-West • Mauro Pawlowski • Shannen Doherty • Uli Herzner • Vitālijs Astafjevs