pose-a-rama is Destiny Deacon’s eighth solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

Exhibition Dates: 16 June – 9 July 2011

Destiny Deacon is an artist, performer and political activist. Since 1990, she has exhibited her photographs, videos and installations in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally.  In 2005 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney held a major retrospective of Deacon’s work titled ‘Walk & don’t look blak’, which toured to the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Tjibao Cultural Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia and Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand. In 2002 Deacon was the only Australian artist to be chosen for ‘Documenta II’ in Kassel, Germany and she has been included in many other important survey exhibitions such as the Havana Bienal in 2009 and 1994, the Biennale of Sydney in 2008 and 2000, the inaugural ‘National Indigenous Art Triennial 2007: Culture Warriors’ at the National Gallery of Australia, the Yokohama Triennale in 2001, the Adelaide Biennial in 2000, the Australian Perspecta in 1999 and 1993,and the 1st Johannesburg Biennale in 1995. Other group exhibitions include ‘Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection’, Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 2009,  ‘Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2008, ‘Yours, Mine & Ours: 50 years of ABC TV’, Penrith Regional Gallery 2007; ‘Why Pictures Now’, Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Vienna in 2006; ‘Image & Imagination’, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada in 2006; ‘High Tide: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art’, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw in 2006 and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Deacon’s work is held in most major public collections in Australia as well as Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Stifting Ludwig Vienna, Austria and Museum Sammlung Essl, Austria.Deacon was selected for the prestigious Clemenger Prize and the National Gallery of Victoria in 2009. Pose-a-rama is Deacon’s eighth solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

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Destiny Deacon Shake it up baby, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
75 x 100 cm (image size), 95  x 120 ; Edition of 5 + 2 APs; enquire
Shake it up baby, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 75 x 100 cm (image size), 95 x 120
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Blakula Rising (B), 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
75 x 100 cm (image size), 95  x 120 cm (paper size)
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Blakula Rising (B), 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 75 x 100 cm (image size), 95 x 120 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Blakula's daughter and Joey, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
75 x 100 cm (image size), 95  x 120 cm (paper size)

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Blakula's daughter and Joey, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 75 x 100 cm (image size), 95 x 120 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Lone piper, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper; 100 x 75 cm; Edition of 5 + 2 APs; enquire
Lone piper, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
100 x 75 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Blakula Rising (A), 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
48.5  x 120.5 cm (paper size)
; Edition of 5 + 2 APs; enquire
Blakula Rising (A), 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 48.5 x 120.5 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Waiting for a lift, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
75 x 100 cm (image size), 95  x 120 cm (paper size)
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Waiting for a lift, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 75 x 100 cm (image size), 95 x 120 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Blakula and daughter, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper; Edition of 5 + 2 APs; enquire
Blakula and daughter, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Trouble, 2011; inkjet print from digital image on archival paper
75 x 100 cm (image size), 95  x 120 cm (paper size)
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Trouble, 2011
inkjet print from digital image on archival paper 75 x 100 cm (image size), 95 x 120 cm (paper size)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs
Destiny Deacon Shake it up baby, 2011; flicker animation from still photographs; 45 seconds (on loop); Edition of 5 + 2 APs; enquire
Shake it up baby, 2011
flicker animation from still photographs
45 seconds (on loop)
Edition of 5 + 2 APs