Destiny Deacon (born 1957)

REGAL EAGLE, 1994

colour Bubble jet print from Polaroid original (diptych)

35.5 x 27.0 cm (image, each)
53.0 x 73.0 cm (frame)

signed on backing verso: Destiny Deacon

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-op, Sydney
Corrigan Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2003
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, October 2004 – October 2006; June 2013 – November 2020

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)

Nelson, R., ‘Destiny Deacon’, The Age, Melbourne, 20 September 2006
Knezic, S., ‘Destiny Deacon Exhumes Australia’s Histories of Racism and Genocide’, Frieze, London, 24 August 2020, no. 214, p. 163 (illus. another example)