Collection
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art
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Title
Over the Fence
2000
Artist
Destiny Deacon
Australia
1957 -
Language groups
Kuku, East Cape region, Erub, Torres Strait region
Artist profile
About
Destiny Deacon is a photo artist, video maker, performer, writer and broadcaster, whose images work to re-interpret, parody and make transparent cultural stereotypes. She was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1957, however she was raised in Melbourne. Deacon has a Bachelor of Arts, major in politics, from the University of Melbourne (1979) and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University (1981). Deacon has spent much time teaching in state secondary and community schools, at the University of Melbourne as a tutor and with the Commonwealth public service as a staff trainer.
Deacon's work has been exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. Individual exhibitions include 'My Boomerang Won't Come Back' in Adelaide, Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand in 1994; and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne in 1995 and 1998.
Deacon's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including the fifth Havana Biennial 1994, Johannesburg Biennale 1995, second Asia-Pacific Triennial 1996, Melbourne International Biennale 1999, Perspecta 1995 and 1999, Biennial of Sydney 2000, 'Das Lied von der Erde, Kassel' 2001 and in this year's Yokohama Triennale, Japan. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas
Details
Date
2000
Materials used
Lambda print from Polaroid
Edition
7/15
Dimensions
80.0 x 100.0 cm image; 100.0 x 120.0 cm sheet; 106.5 x 126.0 x 6.0cm frame
Signature & date
Not signed. Dated l.l.corner, black pen "....2000".
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Photography Collection Benefactors' Program 2001
Location
Not on display
Accession number
405.2001


Place
Where the work was made
Melbourne
Shown in 1 exhibition
Exhibition history
Our Land, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jan 2017–18 Jun 2017
Referenced in 4 publications
Bibliography
Marcia Langton, How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art, 'Issues: 'Aboriginal woman' and other Koori fantasies', pg. 196-198, Sydney, 2011, 188 (colour illus., detail), 197 (colour illus.).
Hetti Perkins, Art + soul: a journey into the world of Aboriginal art, 'Home + away', pg. 1-86, Carlton, 2010, 67 (colour illus.).
Handy Guide for Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, 2001, 26 (illus.).
Look, 'Focusing on the camera, the art of building the Gallery's photography collection', pg.13, Sydney, Mar 2002, 13 (colour illus.).