Tributes flow from friends and the art world for trailblazing contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist Destiny Deacon.
Trailblazing contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist Destiny Deacon has died, with tributes from her friends and art world flowing.Her work centred around dolls playing out scenes, subverting cultural dominance to reflect and parody the environments around us.
"Her work will remain the standard for political art, for witty, cut-through, black, urban art. Her work was feminist and intersectional, free of heteronormative restrictions."
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