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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danie_Mellor>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
atheophobia:
Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atheophobia>
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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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