Destiny Deacon
(Australia 1957– )
- Language group
- Kuku, East Cape region , Erub, Torres Strait region
- Title
- Still Life...
- Year
- 1994
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- colour bubble-jet print from Polaroid photograph
- Edition
- 1/5
- Dimensions
-
69.0 x 56.7cm image; 77.2 x 61.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. sheet, pencil "...1994, Destiny...".
- Credit
- Purchased 1996
- Accession number
- 372.1996
- Copyright
- © Destiny Deacon. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'I think blak dolls represent us as people, I don't think white Australia, or whatever you want to call it, sees us as people.' Destiny Deacon 1993
'Dolls are silent reminders of childhood, but Deacon gives voice to her dolls by communicating feelings… these dolls are decapitated, amputated or contorted, thereby becoming animated and expressive characters in Deacon's psychodramas. In doing so, they confront prejudice and inequality in their inimitable way.'
Natalie King in 'Destiny Deacon: walk & don't look blak', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2004
- Bibliography (2)
-
Judy Annear (Australia), Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, 2005. no catalogue numbers
Periphery 1995, 1995, 24 (illus.), 23-25.
- Exhibition history (3)
-
Smiling Dangerously, Hogarth Galleries, 27 Sep 1994–15 Oct 1994.
Another Country, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jul 1999–02 Apr 2000.
Points of view: Australian photography 1985-95, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006.
