With a career that spans almost 30 years Dean Home has created a distinct style that communicates his journey as an artist. Having held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Australia, Home is represented in state, regional and private collections both in Australia and abroad. With bold and opulent work that makes a statement as it interweaves within both the still life and landscape genres. He explores diverse strands of thought and meaning by bringing together an array of influences to create his sumptuous and theatrical beauties. Gallery One is pleased to present this September 2021 exhibition catalogue to our valued clients.
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Journeys Through The Peony Garden DEAN HOME
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Journeys Through The Peony Garden DEAN HOME 10 Sep - 2 Oct 2021
Journeys through the peony garden
In early 2019 Aileen and I were in Italy and France exploring new towns and revisiting some “old friends” unaware, like all of us, that something would soon rear up and dominate world events for two years – and probably beyond. In the turmoil then and now, I found myself in a fortunate position where the galleries that represent me pushed their boundaries and found a strong response from people now at home, their lives inside their houses. Undoubtedly everyone has a story to tell about how they dealt with those difficult times - for me it coincided with developing the discoveries from that trip. This is my third solo show since returning from Europe and the ideas are coming into bloom now with this new body of work at Gallery One. The discovery in Rome of the oft-mentioned but not before seen peonies on the roadside near the Merca- to Trionfale was quite a surprise They were an explosion of colour and panache. We piled on the train back to our accommodation at Villa Ruffo with an armload of flowers, everyone viewing me as a likely hopeless romantic. The following photographic sessions with those flowers was very intense: I was not in my studio, I did not have the camera I would normally use and I had no access to the things I so often include in my paintings. The colours of these flowers, pure and intense, were vivid and saturated while the fragile delicacy of the petals was so revealing of moods and swings of temperament that I had not yet felt or projected. This was my first revelation. I still use many of those images to develop my ideas and compose new works and I have found different styles of peonies in Australia to add to my resources - it is a work in progress.
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The Second wound to the heart was in Beaune, Cote D’Or in France and on the back of a mind-opening white wine experience. “Wake up!” I told myself. That ever-shimmering sense on my tongue was revealing to me how I needed to paint those peonies. I realised I would need to drive harder at my task to let that subtlety and shifting nuance come free to my work. I feel some good things have come from that. Lastly, I revisited a modest-sized work in the Louvre, The Astrologer by an old flame of mine, Johannes Vermeer, which was compelling for me. I felt visceral sensations of the sense of time moving around, articulated by the character of individual objects: the street outside the window, the amazing brocade cascading over the table, the celestial globe, the astrologer himself all bringing their own sense of time and coming together in some synchronised movement like a hand-crafted clock. Somehow this moment gave me the tip about how disparate elements can create their own worlds and coalesce into something linked – a landscape, a flower, a stream, a bowl and brush.
I feel these influential moments were with me as I made the paintings I am showing here.
Dean Home, 2021
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Journeys Through The Peony Garden Oil on board 160x160 cm
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First Light Touches The Clouds Oil on board 160x160 cm
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Poems From a Stormy Forest Oil on board 122x140 cm
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Bright Journey Deep Inks Oil on board 122x140 cm
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“I have painted that bowl shape for quite a few years. It has acted like some sort of instrument of blessing and through that I don’t seem to tire of it.”
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Red Clouds, Further East Oil on board 84x122 cm
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The Poet ’s Journey Oil on board 84x122 cm
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To Watch The Rivers Flow Oil on board 120x180 cm
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Mount Huangshan
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“Carved out from the treasured mud by the ochre stream Decades of working ‘til the setting sun The master carvers have long departed But their spirits still dream of the Duan Xi quarries.”
Yu Dian 1655-1726 Trans. Yucui Bai/James Lord
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Sing To Me Blue Dragon Oil on board 162x122 cm
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Friends In The Garden Oil on board 70x60 cm
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A wine experience in France gave me quite a shock.
“Wake up”
I said to myself see what they can create in that wine! You need to drive your subtleties so much further, I think this exhibition shows my journey on that moment.
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DEAN HOME CV Dean was born in 1961, at Busselton Western Australia and studied 1979 -1982 at Curtin University, Perth. He was Lecturer in Drawing & Printmaking at Kalgoorlie College in 1985 and moved to Victoria to become Lecturer in Drawing, at Ballarat University College during 1986 and 1987.
Since his first exhibition in 1984 at Howard Street Gallery in Perth, Dean has had over fifty solo exhibitions across Australia. He has been included in over 20 significant group exhibitons.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
REGIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2002 - 2005 2004 - 2020
Church Gallery, Perth
1992 2016 2019
Bunbury Regional Gallery
Arthouse Galleries, Sydney 2004-2006-2007-2008-2009-2011 2013-2015-2016-2018-2020
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Tweed River Regional Gallery
TOURING EXHIBITIONS:
2007 - 2012
Paintbox Gallery, Canberra 2007-2009-2012
1998-1999 Stigma Touring exhibition: UTS Gallery, Sydney; Bendigo Art Gallery, Vic; Latrobe Regional Gallery, Vic; Hamilton Art Gallery, Vic; Drill Hall Gallery, ACT; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Vic, Flinders University Art Gallery, SA.
2010 - 2019
Metro Gallery, Melbourne 2010-2013-2014-2016-2018-2019
2015 - 2021
Gallery One, Southport 2015-2016-2018-2021
1995
Moët & Chandon, Touring exhibition – all State
galleries & NGA Finalist
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017 2014 2013 2012 2012 2006 2004 2001 1983
Orange Regional, Gallery Artist Profile: Australasian painters 2007 – 2017,
Geelong Gallery, Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australian Still Life -not just another bowl of flowers
Mandorla Invitational Art Prize Finalist 2006, 2004, 2002 & 1991 Fleurieu Penisula Art of Food and Wine Prize, Finalist
Charles Nodrum Gallery, A Private View,
Art Gallery of Western Australia, TVW7 Young Artists Awards, Finalist
& 1982
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE:
National Portrait Gallery Australia
National Australia Bank Bunbury Regional Gallery
Telstra Collection Bond University Murdoch University
Australian Academy of Science
Leeuwin Estate Collection
ArtBank
New Norcia (Mandorla) Collection
Perth City Collection Albany City Collection
Manjimup City Collection
Bayswater Council
Busselton Council Collection
MLC Hawthorn
Middle House Hotel Group, Shanghai
Peninsula Hotel, London
Corporate & Private collections in Australia & overseas.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dean Home: An artist’s journey, 2018, Ken McGregor,
Still Life 2021, Amber Cresswell Bell Closet Circus: works from the Horn Collection 2008, Stuart Elliott & Diane Roberts, McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs Unfinished Journey, 2006, Ed. Ken MacGregor, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Max Germaine, 1990
The Peninsula Magazine, December 2020 , text: Ann Tsang Artist Profile , Issue 37 October 2016, text Ashley Crawford The Peninsula Magazine, March 2014, Cover image & article, text: Ann Tsang
Dean’s latest project has been the completion of this large artwork to be featured in the dining room of the new, prestigious Peninsula Hotel in London – due to open in 2022.
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“Quietness is part of the paintings. Some quiet place of repose to move into to look at the dynamic objects at work in the painting.”
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