Chelle Destefano

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  • Home
  • About Chelle
  • C.V.
  • Artworks / Projects
    • Performances >
      • Deaf Dunceys
      • Melbourne Fringe 2020
      • navigating water
      • safe spaces deaf
      • audism
      • performance auslan sculptures
      • time travel 1
    • Installation >
      • audism install
    • Mixed Media >
      • insects collab
    • Sculpture >
      • deaf cones
      • audism
      • Deaf Culture Project
      • the cot story
    • Paintings >
      • growing up deaf
      • Wait of World
      • Blue Ghosts / Abandoned Collection
      • Black Saturday Fires 2009
      • Portraits & Animals
    • Illustrations >
      • Vdub Collection
      • Victoria Australia
      • adelaide buildings
      • Baby Moon Stories
      • vintages collection
    • collaborations
  • Exhibitions
  • Contact
  • News
    • Blog
    • Works in Progress

NEWS!

Current News

2020
* Chelle is a finalist in the Incinerator Award! More details on this soon! Link to finalists here

* Chelle was recently shown in the Sentinel Times paper!
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* Chelle began her Masters of Contemporary Art this year and has been exploring new art practices, multi-medium and multi-disciplinary! She is incorporating performance with other artforms that include textiles, sculpture, installation and other ways of informing her work through installation and other art forms.
Past NEWS:
2019
* Chelle on her Auslan performance for the Fringe is in the newspaper this week on 4th September 2019, in the Herald Sun / Moreland Leader paper! To read the article, click here
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* Chelle is having a performance in the Melbourne Fringe Festival on 12th, 13th and 14th September! She will be creating Auslan sculptures on stage while she shares short stories of growing up Deaf and it will be an interactive performance where the audience will get involved in parts of the show. Her show will be at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute, and each night starts at 6.45 pm for one hour. Tickets are FREE and can be booked at this link: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/the-auslan-movement/

* Further exciting news!!! Chelle is once again a finalist, in another art prize, the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize at the Noosa Regional Gallery! The work for this one is the drawing of the Auslan sculptures which you will see under the Deaf Culture project page!

* Exciting news! The Auslan sculptures set Chelle created in April this year as part of the Deaf Culture project has been selected as a finalist for the Banyule Art Prize 2019! Her work will be exhibited alongside other 39 finalists in an exhibition at the Hutch Art Gallery, Ivanhoe, Victoria on 28th August until October. The opening night will be 28th August, 6 pm to 8 pm!

* Chelle is now working on a huge multi artform project about Deaf Culture, check it out at this link


2018 -
* Two exhibitions will be held in November, one featuring the Cot Story in the Flow Festival in Northcote Town hall (more details will come on this soon) and one at FernArtz Gallery, in Coburg North, Melbourne and will feature new illustrative works of Baby Moon

* I'm moving into my new home with a large studio in four weeks time (November) and I'm beginning a mentorship in 2019 which will see my artworks evolve and expand in terms of mixed mediums! I am beginning works in oil paint and sculptures with wire and clay, so a lot to look forward to! Keep eyes on this space


My artworks can now be purchased at Art Lovers Australia!
 Click here to go to my Art Lovers purchase page


​*Follow me on Bluethumb, the renowned Australian art gallery here

* Check out a fabulous article on me written by the wonderful Pack and Send who are art packing specialists. Article link here.

* I did workshops and an exhibition in Berlin in October 2017!
Link to my profile for this is HERE.


* The International Confederation of Art Critics have written a brilliant critique on my artworks! Read it here.​

* Read an article on me written by Renee, Artrepreneur Coach, of Manhattan Arts International here on winning the Featured Arist!

* An article on my arts as a Deaf artist written by Carolyn Edlund of Artsy Shark here!

Testimonials:
Chelle is an incredibly hard working artist dedicated to her craft. Trying new mediums within her works, such as gold leaf and thickened gesso she makes herself. From pastels, pen, pencil, charcoal to oils. I have many pieces of Chelle's. Original art works, prints, clothing, cushions and bedding items. Chelle's imagination and tireless love of art has her working 7days a week, and up to 14hrs a day. 
The lay-by system she has in place has allowed me to purchase paintings that otherwise I would have missed out on. 
Chelle is a passionate, gifted and highly respected artist. I am very proud to have her artwork all over my home.
​- Harry Grrl


Thank you for doing lovely art to enrich out lives
​- Emily Humphrey

Hey Chelle,
I just pledged $30 to your project for a reason that may sound a little odd.... This morning I awoke and logged on to Kickstarter to check my own campaign. Nothing had happened overnight so I went browsing on my iPad, in bed still, for other projects worth funding. This was when I stumbled across your artworks. I'm not exaggerating or joking in any sense- the abandoned gas station illustration rendered me immobile for about two minutes. I was actually haunted so much by the image I couldn't move my hands, arms or legs and was filled with a really odd emotion. Something between terror and nothingness it was. Eventually I pulled myself together but I just wanted to let you know that no artwork has ever had that effect on me before.
Thank you so much Chelle for making me feel an emotion I didn't know existed. I woke up feeling normal but your work made me feel alive.
Yours in awe
- Matthew Godfrey

I really love your line work and one of the few watercolor artists that actually gets it right. I can't wait for my postcards! From an aspiring artist, this is amazing!
- Tyler Clark

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