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Zoom Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There
Zoom Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There
Zoom Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There
Zoom Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There

Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There

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Description

Destiny Deacon is one of Australia’s boldest and most acclaimed contemporary artists. This puzzle has been designed in collaboration with Destiny Deacon and made exclusively for the NGV design store in celebration of DESTINY, the artist’s first solo show in over 15 years and the largest retrospective of her work to date.
 
A descendant of the Kuku and Erub/Mer people from Far North Queensland and Torres Strait, Deacon is internationally known for a body of work depicting her darkly comic, idiosyncratic worldview. Offering a nuanced, thoughtful and, at times, intensely funny snapshot of contemporary Australian life, Deacon reminds us that ‘serious’ art can also have a sense of humour.

Specifications

Luxury 2.1mm gloss grey-board
Dimensions: Complete puzzle measures 50 x 70 cm; poster insert measures 40 x 28.5cm

About the artwork

Employing what she describes as low-budget techniques, Deacon uses her own brand of complex humour and scathing wit to play on common Indigenous clichés. In a 2005 interview with Natalie King, Deacon said, ‘First I labour for an idea, one that usually ends up being sad or pathetic, and then during the agony process of getting the image done, somehow things take a turn toward the ironic. Humour cuts deep. I like to think that there’s a laugh and a tear in each picture’. In this image dolls sit in the gutter with a box of matches. Are they up to no good? Perhaps the clue lies in the graffiti behind them.

Destiny DEACON
Kuku/Erub/Mer born 1957
Being there 1998; printed 2016
lightjet print from Polaroid
original
67.3 x 100.0 cm
Collection of the artist
© Destiny Deacon, courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Jigsaw Puzzle - Destiny Deacon, Being There

$19.95 Regular price $44.95

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