Audiences can examine new ways of seeing the world with Danie Mellor’s Marru/ the unseen visible exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.
“Marru” means “becoming visible” in the Dyirbal language of Mellor’s ancestors.
Mellor’s art practice is multi-disciplinary and includes painting, photography and video scenes that are taken from archives and contemporary sources.
In using these mediums, Mellor is trying to encourage the viewer to visualise the unseeable and unseen with “new ways of looking.”
He explores Australia’s shared history through the lens of his Ngadjon-jii, Mamu and Anglo-Celtic ancestry and ongoing connection to Country in the Atherton Tablelands and rainforests of far north Queensland.
Marru/ the unseen visible brings together works examining memory and remembrance; the relationship between First Nations people, culture and Country; and the environmental and social impact of colonial history.
At the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 14 until August 3, 2025. Admission is free. For more information visit: https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/stories/qagoma-2025-program-announced
