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She Talks Back Painting
Australia
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 23.6 W x 35 H x 1.2 D in
Ships in a Crate
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About The Artwork
This is part of the Deaf culture works, and tells the story of Growing Up Deaf. This one was the child, Chelle (myself), talking to a toy dog who would talk back. This was in 1984 when I was 5. The toy talking barking dog was adapted by my mum who is an engineer, to talk back echoing my voice. The painting on the wood is a metaphor for the underlying solid and immutable fact of my deafness, over which I paint a happy and normal childhood. This painting has wire on back, ready to hang.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:23.6 W x 35 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Australia.
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Australia
Chelle Destefano is a Deaf multi-disciplinary artist born in 1979 in Melbourne, living/working in Victoria. Working with performance art, sculpture, textile, poetry and Auslan poetry, drawing and painting, Destefano recently completed her Masters of Contemporary Art at VCA at Melbourne Uni. She has been making art since she began studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design in 2001-2006 in Adelaide. Currently her work focuses on development experiences into new works that inform the process of gestural Deaf language in dance and give people the chance to question through works. Winner of the Lake Art Award in 2020 and finalist in many art awards recently from 2019 including the Banyule Art Award for works on paper (2019 and 2022), the Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize (2019), Fishers Ghost Art Award (2020), Noel Counihan Commemorative Award (2019 and 2020), Footscray Art Award (2021) and the Incinerator Art Award (2020).
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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Melbourne, Melbourne
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