Latest News January 2006

Graham will be exhibiting new work at the London Art Fair, Islington with Waterhouse & Dodd, from 18th to 22nd January, 2006.

Also he will be showing at the Realisme 06 ArtFair in Amsterdam with the Frans Jacobs Gallery, Amsterdam. This will run from 18th to 22nd January 2006.

Previous News October 2005

Thinking Bodies' will be at Waterhouse & Dodd, 26 Cork Street , London from 19th October to 15th November.Full details with all the paintings and on line catalogue from www.modbritart.com

Also, Graham will be exhibiting at Art Cologne, 28thOct/1st Nov  with the Frans Jacobs Gallery, Amsterdam. This will be a shared stand with Galerie Jorg Hasenbach - Antwerp/Cape Town.

Previous News April 2005

Graham is currently exhibiting three new works at a Brighton Fringe Festival exhibition called 'Erotica' which is at the Argus Lofts Building and runs from 22nd April to 10th May. He then is participating in an art event with the Goethe Institute in Palermo. Sicily, from the end of April.

In June he will be exhibiting at the Art London art Fair in Chelsea from 8th to 12th, and he is currently working on a series of new paintings called 'Thinking Bodies' which will be at Waterhouse and Dodd in London from mid October to mid November. A full colour catalogue will accompany the show.

Previous News December 2004

Graham will be exhibiting at Palm Beach 3 in Florida from January 14 -17th.

Previous News October 2004

The next solo exhibition will be with Waterhouse and Dodd in New York at the Art in the 20c art fair, at the Armory. There will be many recent paintings on show.

Graham is currently exhibiting mostly smaller works at the Maltby Gallery, Winchester. There will be many new works as well as a few older ones and the exhibition runs through to November 19th.He will also be showing with Waterhouse and Dodd, for the first time, at  Palm Beach 3, Florida, from Jan 13 - 17th 2005. A number of smaller works are also now on show at the galleries' Cork Street address.

Previous News July 2004

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Graham will be included in a large, international art exhibition and symposium organised by the Goethe Institut in Palermo, Sicily. The event will take place this October and will feature many of the world's leading artists, writers and poets. Called 'WELTANSCHAUUNG' the project is designed to show the state of the world at this present time

Graham will also be having a solo exhibition of mostly smaller works a Maltby Contemporary Art in Winchester. This will run from the 5th October to 19th November 2004.

Previous News May 2004

“…We will all survive, addressed to such glimmering
shimmering transience with its insistent

invitation of other.
So close, so warm, so full.”

(Robert Creeley, Shimmer for Graham Dean,
Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 2004)

Dean has recently returned from an International Fellowship Award at the Vermont Studio Center in the U.S.A. There he was surrounded by the stimulating company of other artists, writers, and poets from diverse cultures and social backgrounds. Robert Creeley, the celebrated American poet and critic, responded so strongly to Dean’s work in Vermont that he has written a short introduction and a dedicated poem for the catalogue that accompanies this exhibition:

“Then one night, not long before we were to leave, Graham took us to his working studio and we saw there these extraordinary images, revelations, one wants to say, of person. His ways of compounding the usual agencies of watercolor were very much a part of what made the image so haunting- its layerings, accumulations, resonances, the substance yet float of what one saw. It was an uncanny and very moving experience – and long after we’d come home, it stayed in mind.” (Robert Creeley)

Dean’s paintings are imbued with a deeply humanist quality. He describes them as “holding pens” for human emotion. His main concern running through the work exhibited in Shimmer is that of the Twin. This is expressed through the Mirror Image and through the presence of the Internal Figure:

“ … I know now that there was a literal “twin” present in the image, that phenomenon of the vestigial, physical “double”, who is not born but non the less survives in the given body of its twin. So that may well be the “other”, as it may also be the literal surviving twin… Long ago I learned that art was more given to question than to answers, and that that was its human authority. Graham Dean’s presences are a profound instance.” (Robert Creeley)

Shimmer is the third solo exhibition by one of Britain’s leading figurative painters. Examples of his work may be seen in many public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Arts Council, Sir Terence Conran’s Great Eastern Hotel, The Body Shop International, Anita Roddick and Peter Gabriel. This exhibition is Dean’s first solo show since turning 50 in 2001 and marks his 30 th year of unbroken practice.

Examples of Graham Dean’s work can be seen at www.grahamdean.com and Waterhouse and Dodd.