David Alan Mellor is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. Prof Mellor began teaching at Sussex in 1975 and has subsequently worked internationally as an independent curator.
Professor Mellor specialises in aspects of 20th. century art, photography and film. He is interested in ways in which visual culture is related to broader cultural histories and questions of modernisation, particularly in Britain.
He has organised a number of important exhibitions, as well as writing extensively in this area. Over the last thirty years he has collaborated with the Arts Council of England, The Tate Gallery and The Barbican Art Gallery in presenting new perspectives in British visual culture through a series of influential exhibitions and publications including Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain (Barbican, 1987); and The Sixties (1993).
In 2007, he curated No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain from the Arts Council and British Council Collections, 1967-87 for Arts Council England and British Council.
