Chelle Destefano
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Multidisciplinary artist Melbourne, Australia
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Chelle Destefano is a multi-medium and multi-disciplinary Deaf woman artist working in drawing, printmaking, painting, performance art, textiles, sculpture, installation and mixed media

Artwork Images for Beechworth Biennale
​Images include previous works by Chelle Destefano relevant to the upcoming project. The works are previous performance art videos and textile works, relevant to this project

Chelle Destefano's artwork images (9 total)
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1. Who Do They Think I Am??; Performance video and textile poem installation and Close up DETAIL of textile poem; 2024; 120 x 150 x 15 cm (textile distance from wall), video 5:55 min; 2024
WINNER of the Nillumbik Art Prize 2025
Video link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ncQe7zEOFU​




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​2. Aural Transference in Time and Space; video performance with music; 6:10 min (but please only watch the first 3 minutes); 2025
Video link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhD1n26-JSY&ab_channel=Chelle​
This is the video performance work relevant to this project proposal.
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3. Deaf Voices; Textile poem and video performance of Deaf Auslan poetry; 3:28 min; 2020
Video link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XkDb1rUnuc&ab_channel=Chelle​

This shows one of the examples of textile poetry, one of my earliest textile poetry with performance works.





















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4. The selected pieces from the Blue Ghosts collection
illustrated paintings, watercolour, gouache and mixed medium. These are being reproduced into ghosts of themselves on sheer fabric with poetry sewn in on them.

You can see the whole blue ghosts collection at this link.














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5. Mock up of Site 18, imagary of the installation of the ghost artwork textile poetry works and projected video.


See below this image, the video mock up of the planned site specific work. Video is 1:26 min.














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6. The Ghosts of the artworks - the selected blue ghost artworks printed on sheer fabric, poetry is being sewn in them currently in progress. Size dimensions each: W 120cm x H 150 cm
This photo is to show the progress of this part of the project.












​7. Navigating to a Safe Space; Video performance and textile poem; 2020; 120 x 100 cm, 2020
Winner of the Lake Art Award 2020

This is another example of my textile poetry work with video performance that had elements of items that were a memory of sound at a time.















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8. I Tell You Later, a performance work with textile sculpture pieces;
short video performance video link here; 2.26 min























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9. Small Performance of Aural Visions at Canberra National Art Gallery; video performances with play on water and reflection movement in audio visual sense; 1:56 minutes; 2023
Video link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj4udsMjW-4
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This work was an experimental work based on a memory I had of a sound that became a visual as I got older.








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Email

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Chelle Destefano - copyright 2013 - 2025
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