Destiny Deacon (born 1957)

OZ GAMES – UNDER THE SPELL OF THE TALL POPPIES, 1998 – 2003

from the OZ GAMES series

LightJet print from Polaroid original

100.0 x 80.0 cm (image)
130.0 x 119.0 cm (frame)

edition: 2/5
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in October 2003
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, July 2004 – July 2006; June 2013 – November 2020

Close quarters: contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, 8 October – 28 November 1998, and touring (another example)
Destiny Deacon. D-Tour, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 14 August – 6 September 2003 (another example)
Walk and Don’t Look Blak, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 26 November 2004 – 30 January 2005 and touring (another example)
DESTINY, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 July – 31 January 2021 (another example)

‘Walk and Don’t Look Blak’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 14 December 2004
Butler, R., ‘My, Sir Does Know What He Wants’, Artlink, Adelaide, March 2005, issue 177 (illus. another example)
French, B. & Palmer, D., Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, Sydney, 2009, p. 44 (illus. another example)
Smith, T., ‘Destiny Deacon. A Laugh and A Tear’, Vault, issue 30, May – July 2020, p. 69 (illus. another example)

Another example of this photograph is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney