Daniel Mafe studied and exhibited in London from 1979 until 1990. Since his return to Australia he has exhibited nationally having in excess of 25 solo exhibitions. He currently shows with Jan Manton Art in Brisbane. He is represented in public collections including the Museum of Fine Art, Ostende, the Queensland Art Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Artbank, and Bailleau-Myer Collection. In 2002 he completed a large scale floor commission as part of the Royal Brisbane Herston Hospitals Art Built-in Project, and completed a book entitled Working Spaces: Arts Practice in Progress which focuses on the nature of arts practice through the work of four Brisbane artists