Artists

Artist Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser

Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Artist | Destiny Deacon and Virginia FraserDestiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Occupied, 2008, mixed media, dimensions variable.
    Courtesy the artists and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.

Destiny Deacon
Born 1957 in Maryborough, Australia

Virginia Fraser
Born in Melbourne

Melbourne-based artists Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser worked collaboratively to create a provocative installation in the Gardens. The artists modified an existing ‘Freedom Camping Family Tourer’ canvas tent that the viewer can look into, by adding artificial light, fans and a series of sculptural figures they call ‘ravers’ made of inflated nylon tubes. The movement of air created by the fans causes the turbulent creatures to rise, fall and thrash around inside the tent, producing a rushing noise. These symbolic rebels express the unease of feeling ‘occupied’ – physical occupation, political occupation, occupied as a warning sign meaning ‘don’t come in’, mental occupation (preoccupation, thought, fantasy, dreams, delusions) and supernatural occupation (possession and haunting).