Danie Mellor (born 1971) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist and the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for a mixed media work From Rite to Ritual. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor studied at North Adelaide School of Art, the Australian National University 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. The dominant theme in Mellor's art is the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian cultures. Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions and in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his print Cyathea cooperi. His other major exhibitions have included the Primavera 2005 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007. In 2012, his work was included in the National Museum of Australia's exhibition Menagerie: contemporary Indigenous sculpture and the second National Indigenous Art Triennial.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
868:
A copy of the Diamond Sutra was printed in China, making it the world's oldest dated printed book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra
1792:
Merchant sea captain Robert Gray became the first recorded European to navigate the Columbia River in what is now the Pacific Northwest United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gray%27s_Columbia_River_expedition
1813:
William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth departed westward from Sydney on an expedition to become the first Europeans confirmed to cross the Blue Mountains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wales)
1858:
Minnesota (flag pictured) was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted as the 32nd U.S. state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota
1946:
The United Malays National Organisation, today Malaysia's largest political party, was founded, originally to oppose the constitutional framework of the Malayan Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Malays_National_Organisation
1996:
A severe blizzard on Mount Everest caused the deaths of eight climbers, helping make that year the deadliest in the mountain's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
atheophobia: Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atheophobia
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. --Richard Feynman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
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