{"id":35334,"date":"2025-10-02T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/?post_type=product&#038;p=35334"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:26:25","slug":"piccaninny-paradise","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/stock\/piccaninny-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Piccaninny Paradise<\/em>, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Mellor\u2019s large masterwork, Piccaninny Paradise (2010) exemplifies his practice of reimagining Australian colonial landscapes through a First Nations\u00a0lens. Using pencil, pastel, glitter, Swarovski crystals, and wash, Mellor transforms the genteel medium of drawing into a powerful commentary on\u00a0history, memory, and cultural inheritance. The work\u2019s opulence belies its complex critique of dispossession and mythmaking. Mellor, of Mamu and\u00a0Ngagen \/ Ngajan heritage, plays a vital role in contemporary Australian art by challenging dominant narratives and asserting Indigenous presence\u00a0within art historical traditions. His work bridges cultural perspectives, reshaping how Australia sees its past, and future, through aesthetics grounded\u00a0in truth and reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">PROVENANCE<\/p>\n<p>Caruana &amp; Reid Fine Art, 2010<br \/>\nPrivate Collection, Sydney<\/p>\n<p>EXHIBITED<\/p>\n<p>Non Sufficit Orbis, Melbourne Art Fair in association with Caruana &amp; Reid Fine Art, Melbourne, August 2010<br \/>\nWestern Australian Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, August \u2013 December 2011<br \/>\nDanie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties, University of Queensland Art Museum, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), May \u2013 November 2014. Curated by Maudie Palmer AO.<\/p>\n<p>LITERATURE<\/p>\n<p>Elias, Ann, \u201cFlower light,\u201d Eyeline 78 (2014): 35-41.<br \/>\nElias, Ann, Useless beauty: Flowers and Australian art, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015: 6.<br \/>\nRivera-Santana, Carlos, Archaeology of colonisation: From aesthetics to biopolitics, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2019: 161 (illus).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35466,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21,35],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35334","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"location-sydney","7":"product_cat-artwork","8":"product_cat-stockroom","9":"product_shipping_class-quote-only","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/35334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=35334"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=35334"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=35334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}