Destiny Deacon

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Destiny Deacon (* 1957 in Maryborough , Queensland ) is an Australian photographer , installation , video and performance artist . In addition, she uses laser printing and broadcasting . She also works as an author .

life and work

Destiny Deacon studied to Bachelor policy at the University of Melbourne and then put his degree as a teacher at the La Trobe University from. She initially worked as a history teacher and later as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne. She has been exhibiting regularly since 1990.

Destiny Deacon grew up in the town of Maryborough. Their ancestors can be traced back 150 years. Her mother is a descendant of the Kuku from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait Islanders . Your father is from Sydney.

“Deacon belongs to the generation of urban aboriginal artists who call their work Blak Art and who in the 1990s turned against the national cliché that native Australian art is inevitably a representation of cultural truth. Blak Art, on the other hand, embraces colonial stereotypes of indigenousity and plays them back as pastiches : everyday kitsch from the 1950s and garden gnomes, adorned with “ folkloric design”, become sneering readymades - they are ironic trademarks of intercultural distance that these artists have . "

- Short guide Documenta11

Images and photos such as Last Laugh (1995) Some Day I'll fly away (1999), Postcards from Mummy (1999) Adoption (1993/2000) and Where's Mickey? (2002), as well as the video Forced into Images (2001) are examples of well-known works by Deacon.

"I like to think there is a laugh and a tear in every picture"

- Destiny Deacon

Deacon's work has been shown at international contemporary art exhibitions. At the Documenta11 , the Yokohama Triennale , the first Johannesburg Biennale (1995), the Havana Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney , the Brisbane's Asia-Pacific Triennale and the TarraWarra Biennial, among others.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artgallery Destiny Deacon accessed on January 10, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ nga Destiny Deacon accessed on January 11, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Design & Art Australia online, Anne-Marie Hurtgen Destiny Deacon accessed on January 11, 2019 (English)
  4. ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 60, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
  5. ↑ Virginia Fraser and Destiny Deacon, 'Not much of a soul to bare', in Destiny Deacon: Walk + Don't Look Blak, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2004, pp.108-10
  6. ↑ Museum of Contemporary Art Destiny Deacon accessed on January 11, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Deacon, Destiny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryborough , Queensland