Destiny Deacon

(born 1957)

PEACH BLOSSOM’S REVENGE, 1995

colour Bubble jet print

29.5 x 39.5 cm (image)
59.0 x 67.0 cm (frame)

signed, dated and inscribed with title below image

Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,500

Sold:
$1,841 (inc. BP)

Lot 37

Destiny Deacon

PEACH BLOSSOM’S REVENGE

, 1995

lot details

Destiny Deacon (born 1957)
PEACH BLOSSOM’S REVENGE, 1995
colour Bubble jet print
29.5 x 39.5 cm (image)
59.0 x 67.0 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title below image
Provenance

Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 8 September 2004, lot 111
Corrigan Collection, Sydney
on long-term loan to the University of Technology, Sydney, February 2006 – February 2008; June 2013 – November 2020

Exhibited

Welcome to the Never Never, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 1996 (another example)
Welcome to Never Never, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, 29 March– 12 May 1996, and MAC, Birmingham, 22 February – 13 April 1997 (another example)
Take Re-take. Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 3 October 1998 – 21 February 1999 (another example)

Literature

King, A., ‘Welcome to the Never Never’, Eyeline, vol. 29, Summer 1995, p. 43
Dewdney, A., ‘Deliberate Acts of Cultural Translation’, Third Text, vol. 10, issue 35, p. 93
McFarlane, R., ‘A New Vision Through Black Eyes’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 7 October 1998, p. 15 (illus. another example)
Chare, N., Hoorn, J., and Yue, A., (eds.), Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Routledge, New York, 2019, p.250

Related Works

Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra