Artist Showcase | Daniel O'Shane

Clan group: Meuram (Darnley/Erub Island)
Language groups: Meriam Mer/Kuku Yalanji/ Kulkagal

Daniel Shane was born in 1990 in Cairns, Queensland, where he lives and work. He is a young emerging artist who has developed his own unique minar, or traditional patterning style that draws on his ancestral Islander and mainland Aboriginal heritages.

The fusion of his two ancestral cultures in his artwork is representative of a growing art movement in Far North Queensland. He is a proficient printmaker and often incorporates warr, a form of symbolic patterning, as a rich backdrop for the characters whose stories he recounts in his prints.

Daniel has been the recipient of several national print awards, and his work is held in national and international collections, including the Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland.

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Reimagining: Between Tradition and Innovation
17 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021

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Top left: Daniel O'Shane, Boroboro (drum), 2015, linocut ed.35, Collection: the artist. Courtesy of Canopy Art and Editions Tremblay NFP.

ARTNOW 2017
1 Dec 2017 – 18 Feb 2018

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Daniel O'Shane, Iluel Kab (Evening Star Dance), 2017, hand-coloured vinylcut, ed. 1/30, Courtesy of the artist and Canopy Art Centre, Cairns Daniel O'Shane, Meuram and Zogo Ni Pat, 2015, hand-coloured vinylcut, ed. 1/20, Donated through the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2018

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Daniel O'Shane, Meuram and Zogo Ni Pat, 2015, hand-coloured vinylcut, ed. 1/20, Donated through the Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2018

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Story of Meuram and Zogo Ni Pat

Daniel O'Shane