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Destiny Deacon; Walk & don't look blak

29 April - 11 June 2006, Tokyo

Organisational partners:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

Artist: Destiny Deacon
Curator: Natalie King; Curatorial Advisor: Virginia Fraser; Tour Manager: Sarah Bond

Destiny Deacon: Walk & don't look blak is the first survey by this leading Australian Indigenous artist to be shown in Japan. Deacon's international profile includes participating in the Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art, 2001 and Documenta 11, Kassel (Germany, 2002). Walk & don't look blak spans fifteen years of Deacon's career and highlights photographic, video and installation works that have established her in the Australian and international art worlds.

Deacon creates uncanny, beautiful, frightening and funny vignettes of contemporary life from her domestic surrounds. For many years, she has photographed her family and friends in staged scenarios augmented by props and costumes. Recurrent themes include landscape, portraiture, narrative and phantasmagoria. Deacon often incorporates her 'Aboriginalia' and black 'dollie' collections to illustrate these concerns. Dolls are given personality and life within melodramatic arrangements and Deacon's trademark 'blak' humour.

The tour to Japan followed venues in Australia and Noumea. The tour was supported by Arts Victoria, as well the Australia Council, with further support from the Australia Japan Strategic Ties for the Arts Initiative.

Asialink, The University of Melbourne

Destiny Deacon; Walk & don't look blak