Historical Thebarton's Smith St House Painting

Chelle Destefano is a Deaf multi-disciplinary artist born in 1979 in Melbourne, living/working in Victoria. Working with performance art, sculpture, textile, poetry and Auslan poetry, drawing and painting, Destefano recently completed her Masters of Contemporary Art at VCA at Melbourne Uni. She has been making art since she began studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design in 2001-2006 in Adelaide. Currently her work focuses on development experiences into new works that inform the process of gestural Deaf language in dance and give people the chance to question through works. Winner of the Lake Art Award in 2020 and finalist in many art awards recently from 2019 including the Banyule Art Award for works on paper (2019 and 2022), the Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize (2019), Fishers Ghost Art Award (2020), Noel Counihan Commemorative Award (2019 and 2020), Footscray Art Award (2021) and the Incinerator Art Award (2020).