Meloncholy
2000
Destiny Deacon
(artist)
Destiny Deacon
She/Her
Born in Badjala (Maryborough), Queensland, Australia.
Bio
Destiny Deacon (b. 1957) is a descendant of the KuKu (Far North Queensland) and Erub/Mer (Torres Strait) people. Since the 1990s Deacon's predominately photographic and video work explores the politics of Indigenous identity through humorous and provocative imagery that reconfigures and relies on racist and clichéd stereotypes. Combining autobiography and fictions, Deacon's works offer a viewpoint of Australian life from a Blak, queer woman's perspective. Deacon was the subject of a major retrospective at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (2020). Deacon was included in the 10th Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba (2009); Documenta 11, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Kassel, Germany (2002); and most recently QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection (2021), presented at the NGV International.
Language group
KuKu
Erub/Mer
Based in
Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
Artworks
Exhibitions
Queer Readings of the Collection
2021
Monash University Museum of Art
QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection
2022
National Gallery of Victoria
The Thin Line
1999
Platform 2 Gallery
Lookin' Good
1994
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
The Public Body .02
2017
Artspace
DESTINY
2020
National Gallery of Victoria