Biography
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.
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 exhibitions.
Solo Exhibitions:
50+ in Gold Coast, Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne
2015 – 2016 – 2018 – 2021: Gallery One
1992 Bunbury Regional Gallery
2016 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2019 Tweed River Regional Gallery
Touring Exhibitions:
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.
1995 Moët & Chandon, Touring exhibition – all State galleries & NGA Finalist
Select Group Exhibitions:
2017 Orange Regional, Gallery Artist Profile: Australasian painters 2007 – 2017,
2014 Geelong Gallery, Contemporary Art Prize, Finalist
2013 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist
2012 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Finalist
2012 Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australian Still Life -not just another bowl of flowers 2006 Mandorla Invitational Art Prize Finalist 2006, 2004, 2002 & 1991
2004 Fleurieu Penisula Art of Food and Wine Prize, Finalist
2001 Charles Nodrum Gallery, A Private View,
1983 Art Gallery of Western Australia, TVW7 Young Artists Awards, Finalist & 1982
Collections:
National Portrait Gallery Australia Telstra Collection
Bond University
Murdoch University
ArtBank
Perth City Collection
Albany City Collection
Busselton Council Collection
Middle House Hotel Group, Shanghai
National Australia Bank
Bunbury Regional Gallery Australian Academy of Science Leeuwin Estate Collection
New Norcia (Mandorla) Collection Manjimup City Collection Bayswater Council
MLC Hawthorn
Peninsula Hotel, London
Corporate & Private collections in Australia & overseas.
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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