Deanne Achong is an artist who works across disciplines, including digital and lens-based projects, installation and public art. She has a daily drawing habit, one which acts as a counterpoint to her digital practice, playing with the boundaries of domesticity and technology. Growing up in a multi-racial family, her work is influenced by stories she heard as a child from Trinidadian jumbies to Irish fairies. These mythological elements shape her perception of the world and materialize in her practice. Deanne’s work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. She has been an artist-in-residence in Montreal, Quebec City, Newfoundland and Trinidad. In 2020, she was honoured by the Electronic Literature Organization as one of a group of women who are “pioneers of electronic literature.”
For many moons she was based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). Currently living in rural Newfoundland – K’Taqmkuk, the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq peoples.
Deanne Achong describes and reads from Workin’ For the Yankee Dollar in this video that was recorded at a Reading the Migration Library event during Art Book Month, on October 8, 2020.