DANIE MELLOR, Perpetual (Ngaray), 2022

DANIE MELLOR Dyirbal language, born 1971 Perpetual (Ngaray), 2022 photographic print on stainless steel, ed 2/3 122 x 160 cm signed and dated on label verso: Danie Mellor / 2022 PROVENANCE N.Smith Gallery, New South Wales Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian and Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 26 March 2025, Lot 38 Private Collection, New South Wales EXHIBITED PHOTO2022, 29 April – 21 May 2022, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria* Danie Mellor: Recent Works, 29 March – 29 April 2023, N.Smith Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales* Serpent: Aboriginal Art from Australia, 21 July 2023 – 28 January 2024, Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech, Morocco* LITERATURE Stephens, A., ‘More than meets the eye: Danie Mellor captures the things we cannot see', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 28 April 2022 Cox, M., (et al.), Serpent: Aboriginal Art from Australia, Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech, 2023 COLLECTIONS The Fondation Opale, Switzerland* Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art* In Perpetual (Ngaray), Danie Mellor harnesses the luminous surface of stainless steel to create a striking photographic work that meditates on memory, time, and the enduring presence of Country. The image - highly detailed and rendered in Mellor's signature cool-toned palette - reflects both the natural world and the viewer themselves, drawing them into a layered dialogue between past and present, self and landscape. The title Ngaray, drawn from the artist's Mamu and Ngadjon heritage, speaks to a state of continuity and spirit that transcends linear time. The use of stainless steel as a substrate is deliberate: it evokes permanence, modernity, and reflection - both literal and conceptual. Mellor's landscape is not simply a scene but a portal into ancestral knowledge systems, where stories are held in land and water, and where presence is felt rather than seen. By merging contemporary materials with deeply cultural content, Perpetual (Ngaray) challenges the viewer to consider how Country endures-alive, remembered, and speaking-through colonial interruption, and into perpetuity. * denotes another artwork from this edition © DANIE MELLOR / Copyright Agency, 2026

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