Destiny Deacon b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Destiny Deacon is a Melbourne based photographer, mixed media, printer, 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
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
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

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  • Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery (associate of)
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Related works
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Related collections
  • City of Port Phillip, St Kilda, VIC (collected in)
  • City of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Banyule City Council, Ivanhoe, VIC (collected in)
  • Minter-Ellison Lawyers (collected in)
  • Austcorp Management, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Deloitte Services, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • BHP Billiton (collected in)
  • Vizard Foundation, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Museum Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related events
  • Gazette (exhibited at)
  • Whacked (exhibited at)
  • Walk and don't look blak (exhibited at)
  • Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art (exhibited at)
  • True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag (exhibited at)
  • Tyerabarbowaryaou 2 (exhibited at)