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 performance art, textiles, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and mixed media

Artwork Images for HIAP Residency
​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 (10 total)
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1. Who Do They Think I Am??; Performance video and textile poem installation; 2024; 120 x 150 x 15 cm (textile distance from wall), video 5:55 min (but please only watch the first 3 minutes due to limit of 10 minutes total of videos); 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. Aural Transference I; drawing of sound visuals; 76 x 80 cm each, 2023








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4. Aural Transference II; series of 20 drawings in A5 size (15x20 cm each), 2025



















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5. Aural Transference; installation set up; 2025






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6. Aural Transferences III; gouache, charcoal on paper; 400x80 cm; 2025











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7. 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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​8. 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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9. Auslan Drawn; pencil, pastel, charcoal; 76 x 45 cm; 2020

This is being shown here as an example of my drawing practice and styles and relates to memory, language and experience.



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10. 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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