Michael Dean's works are made from cast concrete or other industrial materials and aim to a direct physical relationship with the human body. Their rough/ delicate surfaces, and sometimes monumental scale, invite touch and relate to the immediate architectural background. His sculptural works evolve from his extensive writing; and many of his works are remodelled words in the artist's own three-dimensional fonts and are accompanied by short, poetic texts. Exploring the transmutation of language, from the word to its graphical representation and its reading, Dean's work marks the different relationships between ideas and material form. The sculptures keep a careful balance between an autonomous presence and their quality as media of communication.
Dean uses quality concrete; a material which, though impenetrable, absorbs and reflects its environment and surroundings natural or not. It remains porous when hard, so absorbs oils from human skin, and some of Dean's works have a strange yet weirdly familiar organic appearance
-Natural
-Organic
-shapes
-text / poetry
-Raw / weathered
-Muted tones
Dean uses quality concrete; a material which, though impenetrable, absorbs and reflects its environment and surroundings natural or not. It remains porous when hard, so absorbs oils from human skin, and some of Dean's works have a strange yet weirdly familiar organic appearance
-Natural
-Organic
-shapes
-text / poetry
-Raw / weathered
-Muted tones