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Dean Bowen BIOGRAPHY
Born 1957 Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. Known for: Folk art style painting and sculpture, humorous symbolism of animals and people.
Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. With a practice spanning over... Read full biography
Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. With a practice spanning over 25 years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Bowen has developed a... Read full biography
Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. With a practice spanning over 25 years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Bowen has developed a distinctive and humorous symbolic language that filters through each work. His highly charismatic and whimsical renderings of animals, human characters and Australian environments celebrate the vicissitudes... Read full biography
Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. With a practice spanning over 25 years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Bowen has developed a distinctive and humorous symbolic language that filters through each work. His highly charismatic and whimsical renderings of animals, human characters and Australian environments celebrate the vicissitudes of life, evincing the simple pleasures of human habitation within the artificial and the natural world. BORN . Maryborough, Victoria, 1957. EDUCATION. 1999 Monash University, Ph. D. 1993 Monash University, Master of Arts. 1976 RMIT, Diploma of Fine... Read full biography
Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality. With a practice spanning over 25 years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Bowen has developed a distinctive and humorous symbolic language that filters through each work. His highly charismatic and whimsical renderings of animals, human characters and Australian environments celebrate the vicissitudes of life, evincing the simple pleasures of human habitation within the artificial and the natural world. BORN . Maryborough, Victoria, 1957. EDUCATION. 1999 Monash University, Ph. D. 1993 Monash University, Master of Arts. 1976 RMIT, Diploma of Fine Art (Printmaking). SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS. 2018 “The Welcome Stranger”, Arthouse Galle... Read full biography
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Melbourne-based artist Dean Bowen is renowned for his charming, child-like aesthetic and unique thematic interplay between urbanity and rurality, humanity and animality.
With a practice spanning over 25 years and encompassing painting, bronze sculpture and printmaking, Bowen has developed a distinctive and humorous symbolic language that filters through each work.
His highly charismatic and whimsical renderings of animals, human characters and Australian environments celebrate the vicissitudes of life, evincing the simple pleasures of human habitation within the artificial and the natural world.
BORN
Maryborough, Victoria, 1957
EDUCATION
1999 Monash University, Ph. D
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