Danielle Melody Archer - artist and writer
Danielle is a Sydney-based artist and writer.
She works with oils and mixed media, mixed words and mixed feelings.
Meet the artist
Danielle has been exploring visual literacy and text for over 3 decades.
Her most recent works were shown at Sydney's Monster Mouse Gallery for her 2025 collaborative exhibition, Howling and Melodies - a showcase of individual and collaborative works with her creative and life partner, Josh Shipton.
Danielle lives and works between Sydney's vibrant inner-west and diverse outer west.
Her favourite dinosaur is triceratops, and she still listens to The Cure.
Follow us on instagram @daniellemelodyart
Gallery
Howling and Melodies 2025
A selection of Danielle's works from 'Howling and Melodies' - the 2025 collaborative exhibition with Josh Shipton.
Selected works
A selection of Danielle's new works, commissions and private collection pieces.
Process and progress
A space for works in progress and new projects, ideas, experiments and Danielle's 'danmade' objects and inspirations.
The hidden world - experimental photography
A collection of experimental photography. Danielle finds inspiration, whimsy and wonder in experimenting with phone cameras. Her playful approach to finding things, hidden in plain sight, helps inform her visual arts practice.
Biography
Danielle Melody Archer is a Sydney-based mixed media artist working primarily with oils and reclaimed materials.
Artistic practice
Her practice is visceral and intuitive, grounded in emotive and organic themes that echo the transience of the human condition. Embellishing each piece with recycled and found objects, Danielle embraces imperfection and impermanence, allowing the material history of each item to speak.
Her work explores existentialism through familiar iconography and archetypes, creating a dialogue between the deeply personal and the universally recognisable. Whether evoking the body, memory, or nature, her layered compositions pull viewers into a space where fragility and resilience coexist.
Background
Danielle holds a Bachelor of Arts from Western Sydney University, graduating with a distinction average. Her streams of study include visual literacy, photography, text and writing, film, and print and broadcast journalism.
Embracing a career in Communications, Danielle has leveraged her creative flair and love for the visual arts through leading rebranding, publications and website projects.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions
2026 - June 11-27
Inaugural Gallery Lane Cove Winter Salon - GALLERY LANE COVE, Sydney.
'Pond I', original botanical ecoprint and watercolour on paper.
2026 - June 10
Please touch the art: interactive exhibition - Group exhibition at GOODSPACE GALLERY, Chippendale
'Tinnitus or Tinnitus', experimental audio album and cover art.
Collaboration with Josh Shipton.
2026 - 30 May -13 June
It's The Little Things - Group exhibition at HOLEYWOOD, Sydney.
'Pond III', original botanical ecoprint and watercolour on paper.
2026 - May 8-9
The Bad Art Show - Group exhibition at FLOW STUDIOS, Camperdown.
'Medusa's Tears', oils and mixed media on canvas.
'Sardine jewellery set' - mixed media wearable.
2026 - March 28
Thoroughfare Paste-up - Public space group exhibition at City of Launceston, Tasmania.
Untiled x 3, collage on paper.
2025 - September 12-14
Howling and Melodies - MONSTER MOUSE, Marrickville.
Duo exhibition. Individual work and collaborative work with Josh Shipton.
Tinnitus or Tinnitus - the album
Her drive to explore her creative horizons has led to her collaboration on the experimental audio soundscape, 'Tinnitus or Tinnitus' - a project born from different pronunciations and different experiences of the medical condition both she and her partner and collaborator, Josh Shipton, experience.
The album aims to replicate what tinnitus sounds like to each of them - and then to push those boundaries with tracks that distort, combine and rend those sounds into a emotive landslide of field recordings and instrumentation.
What's next?
Danielle is currently working on the Howling and Melodies II exhibition with partner, Josh Shipton, for this year.
She also contributes to group exhibitions.
Recently, Danielle has returned to creative writing with an eclectic poetry and prose series for release next year.
She continues to paint, avoid crowds, go treasure hunting, and pat as many cats, dogs and reptiles who will allow it.