Dean Home
Born 1961, Busselton, Australia
Lives & Works – Melbourne (Hampton, Boonwurrung)
Drawing from the traditions of Vanitas and Flemish still life painting, Dean Home’s virtuosic compositions celebrate the metaphysical power of objects. Entering the worlds that Home creates is like stumbling into an enigmatic narrative bursting with sensuality and exoticism. Pushing the viewer into an almost cinematic close-up with each artfully arranged collection of objects, Home’s hyper-realistic and expressionistic works provoke a palpable meditation on beauty, mortality and truth and carry with them a cultural currency that transcends time and speaks of a shared humanity.
Since graduating from Perth’s Curtin University in 1981, Home has participated in solo and group exhibitions across the country, and has been the finalist in numerous awards including the Kings School Art Prize (2024), Geelong Contemporary Art Prize (2014), the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (2013), the Mandorla Invitational Art Prize (1991, 2002, 2004, 2006) and the 2004 Fleurieu Peninsula Art of Food and Wine Prize. His work is held in national collections including the National Portrait Gallery, National Australia Bank, Perth City Collection, Artbank, Murdoch University, Bunbury Regional and Albany City Collection, as well as corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.
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30 Years of Arthouse Gallery
7 - 21 December 2024Over the past three decades, Arthouse Gallery has distinguished itself as one of Australia's leading contemporary art galleries. Currently representing over forty artists, the gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary this...Read more -
Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
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White Clouds in my Garden 21 September - 7 October 2023A new presentation of paintings by Dean Home is always an occasion to anticipate and relish; his artistic process and output renowned for being slow and meticulous. With this lyrical...Read more -
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Flowing Fragrance: Dwelling in the Green Mountains 1 - 26 September 2020Dean Home is undoubtedly one of Australia’s most accomplished still life painters with a string of notable national and international exhibitions behind him. ‘Flowing Fragrance: Dwelling in the Green Mountains’...Read more
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The River Passes 27 September - 20 October 2018Arthouse Gallery is excited to launch a new series of paintings by Dean Home accompanied by the first monograph of the artist’s life and work, Dean Home: An Artist's Journey....Read more -
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Travels Under the Red Cliffs 21 July - 6 August 2016With a career spanning nearly thirty years, Dean Home is a master of the still life. His virtuosic paintings in this traditional genre are symphonies in composition, each scene dramatically...Read more -
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Floating Wine Cups 13 - 29 August 2015Dean Home’s new suite of paintings hinges on the artist’s interest in Chinese art, poetry and philosophy. The works stylistically alloy Chinese culture with Italianate and Baroque tradition, forging a...Read more -
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New Work 6 - 27 August 2011In this current body of work, exotic women hold brushes and fruits amusing themselves as they arrange and offer their own aesthetic compositions to the artist, entertaining themselves in a...Read more