Daniel Mafe lived and exhibited in London from 1979 until 1990 when he then returned to Brisbane. He completed postgraduate studies in Painting at the Royal Academy in 1983-1986 and in 1986 was the winner of the Europe Prize for Painting in Ostende, Belgium.
In 1987 he completed a Painting Fellowship at the Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology in Cheltenham. He has continued to exhibit regularly since his return to Australia and is represented in public collections including the Museum of Fine Art, Ostende, Belgium, the Queensland Art Gallery, Artbank, and Bailleau-Myer Collection in the Museum of Modern Art at Heide Park.
He has recently completed a large scale floor commission for the new atrium as part of the Royal Brisbane Herston Hospitals Art Built-in Project, as well as a book entitled Working Spaces: Arts Practice in Progress which focuses on the nature of arts practice through the work of four Brisbane artists.
Daniel is currently a Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts for the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.
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This information has been contributed by Dr Daniel Mafe.
