Destiny Deacon b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Destiny Deacon was a Melbourne based photographer, printmaker, mixed media artist, installation artist, broadcaster, writer and performer. She has shown her work in over 120 exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
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exhibited at
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Date
1999
Description

International exhibition of film and videoCo-curator: Victoria LynnAustralian artists: Peter Callas, Destiny Deacon, Michael Riley, John Gillies, Lin Li

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Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/1093
exhibited at
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1
Date
14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Tags
Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website
https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/
exhibited at
Gazette
Date
2009
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/2/Destiny_Deacon/1148/
exhibited at
Whacked
Date
2007
Place
Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/news/releases/2007/10/25/137/
exhibited at
Walk and don't look blak
Date
2004
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Description

Touring exhibition: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ; Cultural Centre Tjibaou, Noumea; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC.
Walk & don’t look blak is comprised of approximately fifty artworks made after 1990 by Destiny Deacon, one of Australia’s most renowned artists. The exhibition includes major video, performance, and installation pieces, as well as two key photographic series Forced into images (2001) and Postcards from Mummy (1998) which both featured at Documenta 11 in 2002.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2001/toyear/2012/exhib-date/2006-08-17/exhib/destiny-deacon-walk-and-don-t-look-blak
exhibited at
Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art
Date
2000
Place
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta 1999: Talkback
Date
20 August 1999 - 26 September 1999
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ceremony, Identity and Community
Date
1998
Place
Flinders Art Museum, City Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Destiny Deacon: not another T-shirt (Lawyers, guns & money 2)
Date
1997
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Objects and photographs are speculative and from a reflexive, Koori perspective, pointing to (ab)uses of indigenous cultures within history and current media. The use of T-shirts in this exhibition are subversive, slogans are political expressions, all from the artist’s collection, which at one time or another affected the artist.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report 1997; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Lawyers, guns & money: a project of the Experimental Art Foundation. Adelaide, SA: Experimental Art Foundation, 1997
ISBN 0949836338

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Women Artists in the Contemporary Collection of The Art Gallery of New South Wales: Hang No. 2
Date
24 April 1995 - 4 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

See also the catalogue for Review

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
The National Women's Art Exhibition at Hogarth Galleries
Date
9 April 1995 - 1 April 1995
Place
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

Opened by Destiny Deacon.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Octette
Date
1 April 1995 - 4 April 1995
Place
Eva Breuer, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
Review
Date
8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
National Women's Art Exhibition
exhibited at
True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tyerabarbowaryaou 2
Date
1994
Description
Type
Exhibition
participated in
An Eccentric Orbit
Date
1994
Description

Press release for the exhibition of Australian video art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in December 1994 …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/978
Note
Included in
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1993
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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