Sleepers

Dean’s third solo exhibition with Waterhouse & Dodd is titled Sleepers, and investigates themes concerning our relationship to sleep; be that our fear of a period without sleep, our escape through dreams in sleep, or our experiences of sleep deprivation. Dean was inspired by a recent trip to Norway where the lack of daylight hours leads to a hallucinatory existence. The uniform winter darkness fails to provide the environmental distinction between the dreams of our night-time and the reality of our daylight waking hours.

Dean’s work is primarily concerned with the human form and the human condition. We will also feature more landscape and non-figurative work, which Dean hopes will add greater context and understanding to the current body of work.

Dean’s recent experimentation with fabric dyes, which oxidise and crystallise in the presence of his watercolour pigments, have enabled this move towards a more richly developed background, and they are a literal visual reference to the ethereal iciness of the Norwegian environment that first inspired the works.

A small selection of important works from the exhibition will be previewed at the London Art Fair in January 2010 (13th until 17th) before the full exhibition opens at our Cork Street gallery on the 2nd February. The exhibition will continue until 26th February.

Graham Dean ( 1951 - )
Two-Way Dive
Signed, titled & dated on verso
Watercolour and fabric dye on Arches paper
Executed in 2008 - 2009
76 x 58 cm / 30 x 23 inches

Graham Dean (1951)
Sleeper Head
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
watercolour on handmade Indian rag paper
43 x 37 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Red Head
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
47 x 32 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Incubus
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
77 x 57 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Sleeping Partner
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
16 x 23 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Dark Shroud
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
145 x 69 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Shroud
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
33 x 23 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Blue Mirror 2
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
112 x 98 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Heart
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
76 x 57 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Floating
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
100 x 136 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Highway
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on handmade Indian rag paper
19 x 27 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Forest - 4 hours of daylight
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
151 x 113 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Blue Mirror
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
138 x 72 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Curtain
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
19 x 27 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Blue Mirror
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on handmade Indian rag paper
30 x 19 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Funicular Station
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
38 x 28 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Sleeper
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
113 x 131 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Mask
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
38 x 28 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Funicular – 4 hours of daylight
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
113 x 75 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Shoreline
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on handmade Indian rag paper
102 x 112 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Vantage Point - 4 hours of daylight
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
78 x 132 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Mirror Pool
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
Watercolour on Arches paper
113 x 77 cm

Graham Dean (1951)
Small Sleep
Signed, titled & dated 2009 on verso
watercolour on handmade Indian rag paper
16 x 22 cm

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