​Chelle Destefano, a Deaf artist, born in 1979 and currently lives in Melbourne, Victoria. She lived in Adelaide, South Australia for 18 years where she began her arts studies and arts career.

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Chelle is a multi-disciplinary artist and she works with textiles, performance, installation, sculpture, drawing media and mixed media to explore culture and identity including her Deaf culture and other forms of critical subjects surrounding identity and the environment, and her relationship with time and space. She is currently focused on dance performance using gestural movements with her Auslan language in an abstract sense to discover what her Deaf experiences mean and the history of oppression has meant in affecting her life as many other Deaf people have experienced.

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Spatial Movements of our Auslan sign language in paper sculptural forms. 

 

source: chelledestefano.com