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): Alexander Mitchell (engineer) • Arthur Matthew Weld Downing • Christie brothers • Dan Campbell • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Frederick North, Lord North • Jean-Louis Lévesque • Joie Ray (runner) • Josh Reynolds (rugby league) • Lou Bega • Mike Beuttler • Vladimir Cosma
Born in the same month (April 1971): Bo Outlaw • Darren Jessee • Dong Abay • Emmanuel Collard • Guillaume Depardieu • Indro Olumets • John Zandig • Leo Fortune-West • Mauro Pawlowski • Philippe Carbonneau • Sara Baras • Simona Cavallari (actress) • Sonia Bisset • Uli Herzner