Danie Mellor Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Danie Mellor Art Value Price Guide

Mar. 05, 2024
Danie Mellor - Trunk Shield, 2003
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Danie Mellor is a versatile artist whose creative repertoire encompasses sculpture, photography, printmaking, and drawing. In the objects like this Trunk Shield, Mellor utilises reclaimed metal sourced from the base of a vintage traveling trunk as a potent metaphor to convey the displacement experienced by his great-grandmother, a member of the Mamu/Ngadjonji people. The gradual deterioration of the shield's metal surface serves as a poignant allusion to the erosion of traditional Indigenous culture over time, a consequence of the influence and intervention of Christian missionaries.
Cooee Art
Nov. 20, 2023
Danie Mellor (b. 1971) Pup, 2004
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
slip-cast earthenware with underglaze, signed to base 'Danie Mellor'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Aug. 10, 2023
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15 signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2002 titled lower left 116 x 168cm PROVENANCE: Art Vault, Mildura Corporate collection, Mildura Thence by descent EXHIBITIONS: Floribunda: From The Collection, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 9 February - 28 April 2019 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Danie Mellor is one of the utmost creative and visionary contemporary Australian artists. Refusing to be pigeonholed, Danie has produced creative work across numerous mediums for the past three decades. His works explore themes that are critically linked to cultural histories and concepts of the landscape. Another impression of this print is held in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. © The Artist
Leonard Joel
Apr. 05, 2023
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15 signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2002 titled lower left 116 x 168cm PROVENANCE: Art Vault, Mildura Corporate collection, Mildura Thence by descent EXHIBITIONS: Floribunda: From The Collection, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 9 February - 28 April 2019 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Danie Mellor is one of the utmost creative and visionary contemporary Australian artists. Refusing to be pigeonholed, Danie has produced creative work across numerous mediums for the past three decades. His works explore themes that are critically linked to cultural histories and concepts of the landscape. Another impression of this print is held in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. © The Artist
Leonard Joel
Nov. 29, 2022
Danie Mellor (born 1971) An Intriguing History of Mankind (of songs and soliloquy) height: 83.0cm (32 11/16in).
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Danie Mellor (born 1971) An Intriguing History of Mankind (of songs and soliloquy) birdcage, taxidermy, mosaic china, painted wood and ceramic height: 83.0cm (32 11/16in).
Bonhams
Nov. 16, 2022
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15
Est: $12,000 - $16,000
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Cyathea Cooperi 2003 colour mezzotint, edition of 15 signed and dated lower left: Danie Mellor 2002 editioned lower left titled lower left 116 x 168cm PROVENANCE: Art Vault, Mildura Corporate collection, Mildura Thence by decent EXHIBITIONS: Floribunda: From The Collection, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 9 February - 28 April 2019 (another impression) OTHER NOTES: Danie Mellor is one of the utmost creative and visionary contemporary Australian artists. Refusing to be pigeonholed, Danie has produced creative work across numerous mediums for the past three decades. His works explore themes that are critically linked to cultural histories and concepts of the landscape. Another impression of this print is currently held in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. © The Artist
Leonard Joel
May. 11, 2022
Danie Mellor (born 1971) on a non correolationist thought XIV, 2016
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Danie Mellor (born 1971) on a non correolationist thought XIV, 2016 titled, signed and dated on label attached verso: 'Danie Mellor / 2016' chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper, face mounted to clear acrylic diameter: 80.0cm (31 1/2in). For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Aug. 03, 2021
DANIE MELLOR, A SUBLIME REFLECTION, 2016
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
DANIE MELLOR born 1971 A SUBLIME REFLECTION, 2016 chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper face mounted to clear acrylic 90.0cm (diameter) edition: 2/3 signed, dated, inscribed and numbered on artist’s label verso: A Sublime Reflection 2016 / Danie Mellor 2/3 PROVENANCE donated by the Artist in support of the IMAAC auction CONDITION This chromogenic print is in excellent, stable and original condition and is offered mounted and ready to hang. Image courtesy Danie Mellor
Deutscher and Hackett
Aug. 03, 2021
DANIE MELLOR, THE ROMANCE, 2018
Est: $3,500 - $4,500
DANIE MELLOR born 1971 THE ROMANCE, 2018 chromogenic print on metallic photographic paper face mounted to clear acrylic 40.0 cm (diameter) edition: 2/3 signed, dated, inscribed and numbered on artist’s label verso: Romance 2018 / Danie Mellor 2/3 PROVENANCE donated by the Artist in support of the IMAAC auction CONDITION This chromogenic print is in excellent, stable and original condition and is offered mounted and ready to hang. Image courtesy Danie Mellor
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 05, 2020
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Moving in Moving Out 2004 glazed slip cast earthenware edition of 3
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
DANIE MELLOR (born 1971) Moving in Moving Out 2004 glazed slip cast earthenware edition of 3 signed, dated, titled and numbered verso 77.5 x 41.5cm OTHER NOTES: Related work: Danie Mellor, Moving On, Moving Out 2007, slip cast earthenware, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia © the artist
Leonard Joel
Aug. 28, 2019
DANIE MELLOR , born 1971 , BAYI DAMBUN (GLADES OF DUSK AND SHADE), 2014, pencil and pastel on paper
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
DANIE MELLOR , born 1971 , BAYI DAMBUN (GLADES OF DUSK AND SHADE), 2014, pencil and pastel on paper DIMENSIONS: 100.0 x 120.0 cm PROVENANCE: Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane pARTners Art Collective, Melbourne, acquired from the above in September 2014 RELATED WORK: Bayi dambun bala mila, 2014, mixed media on paper, 300.0 x 360.0 cm, 9 panels, each 100.0 x 120.0 cm, in the collection of the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria ESSAY: Bayi Dambun is the name of a legendary spirit of the rainforest, an unseen presence and energy who features in ancient dreaming stories and cosmologies of the indigenous peoples of North Queensland, including the Mamu, Ngagen and Jirrbal clans of Danie Mellor’s maternal ancestors.1 This immersive tableau of dense rainforest displays, with some ambiguity, the connection that Australian indigenous people have had to the land since time immemorial. Creating a bridge between the artist’s earlier vignettes and his current large-scale photographic installations, Bayi Dambun (Glades of Dusk and Shade), 2014 is entirely hand drawn, the highly detailed level of sophistication created through layered observations and colonial photographic records; spiritual depth married to spatial depth. For all the technical skill with which the rainforest undergrowth is translated, the artifice of Mellor’s hand is still apparent. By applying a melancholic blue hue to his views, the artist enforces a removal from the landscape. The viewer adopts an outside perspective, altering the true appearance of the ancient natural landscape. It becomes a transformed environment. Inspired by the exotic scenes depicted on blue and white Spode china contemporaneous to the European arrival on Australian shores, Mellor has adopted this strategy as a means of evoking a sense of ’otherworldliness’, a lens of romantic exoticism. Untouched by this doctored view are diminutive indigenous figures and native animals, appearing throughout Mellor’s scenes as curiously dislocated and transposed from their environment. Mellor addresses thus, with enticing beauty, the continuing presence of aboriginal people and their sovereignty over this land. Bayi Dambun (Glades of Dusk and Shade), closely related to a portion of the enormous, nine-panel Bayi Dambun Bala Mila in the collection of the TarraWarra Museum of Art, is a seductive and immersive image exploring a subtle post-colonial presentation of the natural landscape. Cool and damp, the stillness of this image reflects a deeper cycle of life, death and regeneration. This is the foil of the rainforest, it is beautiful and deadly in equal measure. Dwarfed by the strangler vines and sprawling buttress roots of a fig tree, a man sits cross-legged on a platform with his back to the viewer. Surrounded by woven bicornal baskets, jarwun, this man is performing sacred funerary rites. As intruders to this scene, both metaphorically and physically, we silently bear witness to this ritual, only grasping the beguiling aesthetic mystery of its surface. 1. Danie Mellor Exotic Lies Sacred Ties, exhibition catalogue, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2014, p. 17 LUCIE REEVES-SMITH
Deutscher and Hackett
Mar. 28, 2019
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, If Rousseau Had a Dog (Black) 2008
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, If Rousseau Had a Dog (Black) 2008 slipcast ceramic 23.0 cm height unique| signed, dated and inscribed to underside: Danie/ Mellor/ If Rousseau/ had a dog/ it would be/ black/ 08 Jan Murphy Gallery, Queensland Private collection, Queensland Animalia - A Group Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Queensland, 14 June - 5 July 2011
Menzies
Jun. 13, 2018
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, A MOST FAVOURED ASPECT (ON THE PERIPHERY), 2009, pencil, pastel, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on paper, housed in the artist's exhibition frame
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, A MOST FAVOURED ASPECT (ON THE PERIPHERY), 2009, pencil, pastel, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on paper, housed in the artists exhibition frame SIGNED: signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor / 2009 inscribed with title lower left: A most/ favoured / aspect (on / the periphery) DIMENSIONS: 28.0 x 38.0 cm (sheet) PROVENANCE: Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: Danie Mellor: New World, New Order, A Complex Vision, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, 1 - 16 May 2009 ESSAY: Danie Mellor lives and works in New South Wales SELECTED COLLECTIONS Artbank, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australian Museum, Sydney Australian National University, Canberra Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra Flinders University, Adelaide Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales New Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Shepparton Regional Gallery, Victoria University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane REPRESENTED BY Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 29, 2018
Agent of Change
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Danie Mellor began creating art at the age of 19 when he enrolled at the North Adelaide School of Art. He went on to study at the Canberra School of Art, the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and was awarded a PhD from the School of Art at the National Institute of Art at ANU in 2004. Mellorâs work is varied. He produces prints, drawings and paintings but also employs ceramics, mosaic, glass, steel and wood in his works. His interest is in investigating cultural differences in perception and ways of reading of objects within the gallery context. His themes most often address the entangled histories of Australiaâs Indigenous, colonial and settler communities.
Cooee Art
Aug. 10, 2017
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Trace of History (of Death and Resurrection) 2010
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Trace of History (of Death and Resurrection) 2010 DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Trace of History (of Death and Resurrection) 2010 pastel, pencil, wash, studs, glitter and Swarovski crystals on paper 205.5 x 79.5 cm (framed dimensions: 208.0 x 103.0 cm (irreg.)) signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2010 inscribed lower left: A Trace of History (of Death & Resurrection) The artist Buratti Fine Art, Perth Private collection, Brisbane Non Sufficit Orbis: Danie Mellor, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 7 - 28 July 2010 and the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, 4 - 8 August 2010 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards (Finalist), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 13 August - 19 December 2011 (label attached verso, accession no.2011/E253)
Menzies
Aug. 10, 2017
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Point of Order (New Worlds from Old Power) 2010
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Point of Order (New Worlds from Old Power) 2010 DANIE MELLOR born 1971, A Point of Order (New Worlds from Old Power) 2010 pastel, pencil, Swarovski crystals, glitter and wash on paper 142.0 x 185.0 cm (framed dimensions: 155.5 x 210.0 cm) signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2010 inscribed lower left: A Point of Order (New Worlds from Old) The artist Buratti Fine Art, Perth Private collection, Brisbane Non Sufficit Orbis: Danie Mellor, Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 7 - 28 July 2010 and the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, 4 - 8 August 2010 Danie Mellor, Leslie Rice and Philip Hunter: Debut, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne, 20 March - 14 April 2012
Menzies
Aug. 26, 2015
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF A LORD, 2009, pencil, pastel, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on Saunders Waterford paper, 37.5 x 47.0 cm
Est: $7,500 - $10,000
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF A LORD, 2009, pencil, pastel, glitter, Swarovski crystal and wash on Saunders Waterford paper 37.5 x 47.0 cm DIMENSIONS: signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2009 inscribed lower left: At play in the fields of a Lord EXHIBITED: Danie Mellor: A Balance of Power, Michael Reid, Sydney, 30 September – 31 October 2009, cat. 14 Menagerie Exhibition, Australian Museum, Sydney, 22 December 2012 – 2 March 2014 PROVENANCE: Caruana and Reid Fine Art, Sydney (label attached verso) Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett
May. 06, 2015
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, A CULTIVATED CEREMONY: OF MAN, MYTH AND MAGIC, 2012, pastel, pencil, glitter, Swarovski crystal on Saunders Waterford paper
Est: $9,000 - $14,000
DANIE MELLOR, born 1971, A CULTIVATED CEREMONY: OF MAN, MYTH AND MAGIC, 2012, pastel, pencil, glitter, Swarovski crystal on Saunders Waterford paper SIGNED: signed and dated lower right: Danie Mellor 2012 inscribed lower left: Of Man, Myth and Magic DIMENSIONS: 58.0 x 48.5 cm (oval) EXHIBITED: Danie Mellor: Between History and Paradise, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, 8 June – 15 July 2012 (illustrated on exhibition invitation) Menagerie Exhibition, Australian Museum, Sydney, 22 December 2012 – 2 March 2014 PROVENANCE: Michael Reid, Sydney Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher and Hackett