Danie Mellor presents his first solo exhibition at Tolarno Galleries entitled The Landspace: [all the debils are here].
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Danie Mellor's maternal Aboriginal family are descendants of Mamu and Ngadjon peoples whose country is in the Atherton Tablelands of tropical far north Queensland. His father's family emigrated from California to Australia in the early 1900s. Mellor's significant body of work exploring Australia's heritage, through a very personal lens, has been recognised by major public museums.
In this significant new series, Mellor reimagines the landscape as the landspace, and in doing so opens up a new way of seeing history, ownership and possession of country.
"Reimagining the world as a landspace suggests we are in an enveloping environment, a world that has its past, present and future - its dreaming and landstory - unfolding as prescient and concurrent phenomena," Mellor says.
The exhibition will include works ranging from large scale photographic panoramas to more intimate pieces and mixed media works, combining contemporary photography and archival imagery from rainforest country in northern Queensland.
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