Works
  • Dean Home, As You Enter the Forest, 2015
    Dean Home
    As You Enter the Forest, 2015
    oil on board
    100 x 160 cm, 104 x 164 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, Bringing it Home, 2015
    Dean Home
    Bringing it Home, 2015
    oil on board
    122 x 170 cm, 126 x 174 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, Flight From the Secret Garden, 2015
    Dean Home
    Flight From the Secret Garden, 2015
    acrylic on canvas
    104 x 122 cm, 108 x 126 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, From the Dark Mountains, 2015
    Dean Home
    From the Dark Mountains, 2015
    oil on board
    104 x 122 cm, 106 x 126 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, Honey Eaters, 2015
    Dean Home
    Honey Eaters, 2015
    oil on board
    100 x 160 cm, 104 x 164 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, Return to My Senses, 2014
    Dean Home
    Return to My Senses, 2014
    oil on board
    80 x 100 cm, 84 x 104 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, Summer Circus, 2015
    Dean Home
    Summer Circus, 2015
    oil on board
    104 x 122 cm, 108 x 126 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, The Alchemist's Poem, 2015
    Dean Home
    The Alchemist's Poem, 2015
    oil on board
    60 x 85 cm, 64 x 89 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, The Blooms and the Beans, 2014
    Dean Home
    The Blooms and the Beans, 2014
    oil on board
    80 x 100 cm, 84 x 104 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, The Fanciest Slipper, 2014
    Dean Home
    The Fanciest Slipper, 2014
    oil on board
    80 x 100 cm, 84 x 104 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, The Gardener's Meditation, 2015
    Dean Home
    The Gardener's Meditation, 2015
    oil on board
    100 x 160 cm, 104 x 164 cm (framed)
  • Dean Home, The Overgrown Path, 2015
    Dean Home
    The Overgrown Path, 2015
    oil on board
    122 x 190 cm
  • Dean Home, The Tempo of the Brush, 2015
    Dean Home
    The Tempo of the Brush, 2015
    oil on board
    60 x 85 cm, 64 x 89 cm (framed)
Exhibition Text

Dean 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 synthesis between the east and the west. Antique Chinese vessels with swathes of fabric, fecund fruit, calligraphy brushes and vivacious magnolias are rendered with exquisite chiaroscuro and a highly refined palette. The paintings are replete with symbolism, each object embedded with meaning which, through a dialogue of proximity with other objects, hatches an multi-layered narrative that is given form through the viewer’s imagination and experience.

 

Thematically, the exhibition draws on the ancient Chinese story of floating cups of wine down curving streams and composing a formal poem where each cup lands in a collective exchange of ideas. The symbolic relationship between wine and poetry in Chinese culture pivots on the belief that wine dissolves cognitive barriers and opens up the mind to new ideas. This tradition is a trope for Home’s new paintings, which are like a series of floating cups in the gallery space – vignettes of meaning to be consumed by the viewer.

Installation Views