Joe Dean | Chicksands Chalk Erratic 1, 2023
Etching
Media Dimensions: 59.4 x 42 cm
Image Dimensions: 40 x 22 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Joe Dean’s recent work focuses on the rich geology and history of seemingly ordinary places that linger in the imagination. He explores the way we respond to these places that have personal significance after they’ve been left behind, rather than simply remaining true to what is seen or recorded in the moment. Transitory moments, frozen or expanded to allow for further contemplation of what might seem unknown, insignificant, or inconsequential. Many of these places are Cretaceous era chalk landscapes. He will often collect objects and artefacts when revisiting them, like flint, or the lumps of chalk that fall from the cliff faces at his local chalk pit that have inspired recent drawings, photopolymer and woodcut prints. He explores these sculptural forms through observational drawing, then gradually this evolves into printmaking. Altered scale and incongruous juxtapositions evolve as the images take shape. They become an abstracted view of the original reality, a way of holding onto a fragment or feeling, making it concrete. The results are open to multiple readings and interpretations. There is a surreal or uncanny edge to the imagery but also a photographic quality that is retained. They are convincing but also simultaneously impossible encounters.
Etching
Media Dimensions: 59.4 x 42 cm
Image Dimensions: 40 x 22 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Joe Dean’s recent work focuses on the rich geology and history of seemingly ordinary places that linger in the imagination. He explores the way we respond to these places that have personal significance after they’ve been left behind, rather than simply remaining true to what is seen or recorded in the moment. Transitory moments, frozen or expanded to allow for further contemplation of what might seem unknown, insignificant, or inconsequential. Many of these places are Cretaceous era chalk landscapes. He will often collect objects and artefacts when revisiting them, like flint, or the lumps of chalk that fall from the cliff faces at his local chalk pit that have inspired recent drawings, photopolymer and woodcut prints. He explores these sculptural forms through observational drawing, then gradually this evolves into printmaking. Altered scale and incongruous juxtapositions evolve as the images take shape. They become an abstracted view of the original reality, a way of holding onto a fragment or feeling, making it concrete. The results are open to multiple readings and interpretations. There is a surreal or uncanny edge to the imagery but also a photographic quality that is retained. They are convincing but also simultaneously impossible encounters.
Etching
Media Dimensions: 59.4 x 42 cm
Image Dimensions: 40 x 22 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Joe Dean’s recent work focuses on the rich geology and history of seemingly ordinary places that linger in the imagination. He explores the way we respond to these places that have personal significance after they’ve been left behind, rather than simply remaining true to what is seen or recorded in the moment. Transitory moments, frozen or expanded to allow for further contemplation of what might seem unknown, insignificant, or inconsequential. Many of these places are Cretaceous era chalk landscapes. He will often collect objects and artefacts when revisiting them, like flint, or the lumps of chalk that fall from the cliff faces at his local chalk pit that have inspired recent drawings, photopolymer and woodcut prints. He explores these sculptural forms through observational drawing, then gradually this evolves into printmaking. Altered scale and incongruous juxtapositions evolve as the images take shape. They become an abstracted view of the original reality, a way of holding onto a fragment or feeling, making it concrete. The results are open to multiple readings and interpretations. There is a surreal or uncanny edge to the imagery but also a photographic quality that is retained. They are convincing but also simultaneously impossible encounters.
