Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the name of a person who has died.
KuKu (Far North Queensland) and Erub/Mer (Torres Strait Islands) artist, Dr Destiny Deacon, has died in Naarm/Melbourne at the age of 67. The well-respected figure in contemporary art once described herself as ‘just an old-fashioned political artist’.
Deacon was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1957 before moving with her family to Port Melbourne, Victoria in 1959.
