Joe Dean’s recent work focuses on the rich geology and history of seemingly ordinary landscapes. He begins with drawings, photos, or film, combining them to examine the way we respond to a place after we’ve left it behind.
Dean will often collect objects and artefacts when revisiting these landscapes. For example, flint, or the lumps of chalk that fall from the cliff faces at his local chalk pit that have inspired recent drawings, photopolymer, and woodcut prints. He explores these sculptural forms through observational drawing and then gradually this evolves into printmaking.
Altered scale and incongruous juxtapositions evolve as the images take shape. They become a partially imagined view of the original reality, a way of holding onto a fragment or feeling. The results are open to multiple readings and interpretations. There is often a surreal or uncanny edge to the imagery but also a photographic quality that is retained.
Dean has exhibited several times at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and has also had work included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition. He studied Fine Art at Bath Spa and completed his MA at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2022.
Joe Dean’s recent work focuses on the rich geology and history of seemingly ordinary landscapes. He begins with drawings, photos, or film, combining them to examine the way we respond to a place after we’ve left it behind.
Dean will often collect objects and artefacts when revisiting these landscapes. For example, flint, or the lumps of chalk that fall from the cliff faces at his local chalk pit that have inspired recent drawings, photopolymer, and woodcut prints. He explores these sculptural forms through observational drawing and then gradually this evolves into printmaking.
Altered scale and incongruous juxtapositions evolve as the images take shape. They become a partially imagined view of the original reality, a way of holding onto a fragment or feeling. The results are open to multiple readings and interpretations. There is often a surreal or uncanny edge to the imagery but also a photographic quality that is retained.
Dean has exhibited several times at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and has also had work included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition. He studied Fine Art at Bath Spa and completed his MA at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in 2022.
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