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Dean Raybould

New Zealand and Nelson based highly illustrative artist with a penchant for word-play in the titles of his paintings. "Art can be seen as an unconcious search for an authentic self, and here searching is the main narrative thread. Stringing loosely together universal questions of belonging and identity-national and cultural, personal and spiritual... or joining knotty contemporary realitys with humanity's hardwired hunt for a tribal hearth. Salient searches that are often unresolved like the ambiguities portrayed in these works". Dean's paintings on found objects, glass, wood, boards and canvas are interlaced with social and environmental commentary, black humour and ambiguous musings on human existence. The interplay of words, flora and fauna, birds and pattern all combine to create a mystical dream-like trance of finely executed treasures. Often collected for his lyrical and humourous artworks Dean's pieces evoke a New Zealand surrealist environment that has its roots firmly grounded in his inimitable "tongue in cheek" style.

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New 2011 Land-In(g)-Place Acrylic on Canvas Sheet Size: 172cm x 104cm ENQUIRE NOW	Detail Land-In(g)-Place

 

Hello? Huia's there?? Acrylic on Canvas Size: 25.5cm x 25.5cm $NZ550 ENQUIRE NOW	The Highlambers Acrylic on Canvas Size: 25.5cm x 25.5cm $NZ550
High Country Acrylic on Board (Framed) $NZ2600 (After the poem by James K Baxter) ENQUIRE NOW	V(i)olcano Acrylic on Violin Size: 59cm x 21cm $NZ800 sold
Heading to the (g)host Acrylic on Canvas $NZ2400 ENQUIRE NOW
Escape Bored Acrylic, Yam, Resin on Board $NZ1600	Gut Tar Oil, Gold Leaf, Resin on Guitar $NZ2200 sold
whoias-LIVE(in the)-sound(s) Acrylic on Board Size 97cm x 56cm $NZ2200 sold	Guistar Acrylic on Board $NZ1800
High Country Ho(or)edown Acrylic on Canvas Size: 25.5cm x 25.5cm $NZ550	Observer Acrylic on Board Size: 62cm x 42cm $NZ800
Every Branch you take Acrylic on Board $NZ2800 sold

Dean Raybould NZ contemporary artist

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