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Walking the Tower of Babylon - LTD ED 3/30 Painting

Chelle Destefano

Australia

Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 16.5 W x 23.4 H x 2 D in

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Some people think they are God, and they walk up the tower to reach out to God, while the normal people like Snail, Alien, the poor humble robed man behind Snail, and the guys working on the boats watch from the bottom, knowing well that the fools are doing the wrong thing. The archangels Michael and Gabriel come down to tell the powerful rich fools off for trying to be God and trying to reach up to. The language is then changed and mixed up, confusing everyone. This artwork is part of the Wait of the World Series which informs and comments on corruption, examines power, mythology, religion, and history. The works presented encompass contemporary issues blended with biblical history. Chelle’s works cleverly intermingle the real and imaginary, while commenting on serious, contemporary issues. Fascinated by the constant existence of corruption in the world since the dawn of men, Chelle’s works use mythological half animal creatures roaming the planet to comment on man’s transformation over time – and the secrets that time herself keeps hidden from us… Experience Wait of the World and question religion, money, greed and power. Viewers would feel connections to parts of the Wait of the World story that informs of the changes and history. She uses the mediums watercolour, pen, ink, goauche to give the impressions of world changes, highlighting with colour the important subjects that join to the matters of Earth. Chelle Destefano, a Deaf artist, born in Melbourne and currently lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She has been practicing her arts for 15 years and exhibiting for the last decade and most recently as an international artist in Europe. She exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and is preparing for two solo exhibitions in Paris and London later this year.

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Painting:Acrylic on Paper

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Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 2 D in

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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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