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Dean Raybould
My Sonic Temple
Exhibition Sept 4 - 23

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.

Sailing the Sounds Acrylic on Canvas Sheet plus Resin Bird Heads $NZ3750 sold	DetailSailing the Sounds
Home Recordings Acrylic on Canvas Sheet plus Resin Bird Heads $NZ3750	Detail Home Recordings
Pine(ing) Guitharsis Acrylic on Guitar plus Resin Bird Head $NZ2400	Mountain Man Acrylic on Board $NZ1100
Speaker Box of Birds Acrylic on Guitar plus Resin Bird Heads $NZ2400	Skeyes Open Acrylic on Board $NZ800
Neverything Sings Acrylic on Canvas $NZ2200	Haunted Whose Acrylic on Board $NZ800
Waking the Lines Acrylic on Board $NZ750	Will ye no come back now Acrylic on Vinyl $NZ350 sold

Dean Raybould NZ contemporary artist

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