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This tableaux re-stages Deacon’s childhood experience of a Royal visit to Australia, in which all she saw was a waving hand and a flurry of British flags. Deacon often employs dolls (from her personal collection of Koori kitsch) in her work. As she states: "I think ‘blak’ dolls represent us as people. I don’t think white Australia, or whatever you want to call it, sees us as people." The distance created by Deacon’s casting of dolls as her protagonists highlights the distance between Aboriginal Australians and the structures and traditions of this country’s colonial past. |
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97.1762
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| Artist: | DEACON, Destiny |
| Birth/Death Country: | Australia |
| Birth/Death Date: | 1957 |
| ATSI Region: | Southeast |
| Sub-Region: | Victoria |
| Specific Location: | Melbourne |
| Artists Country: | Erub (Darnley Island) |
| Language: | K'ua K'ua |
| Title/date: | Waiting for HRH 1994 |
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| Technique: | colour bubble jet print |
| Support: | white photocopy paper on foamcore |
| Size: | sight comp 23.9 x 64.6 mount 36.2 x 76.4 |
| Credit Line: | KODAK (Australasia) PTY LTD Fund 1997 |