Goldsmiths - University of London

Mark Dean

My work as an artist is within the field of video and sound installation. My starting points are fragments of cultural material taken as objets trouvés, which I reprocess, often mechanistically, to generate new material. By these means, I seek the representation of personhood in cultural terms. Music (as distinct from sound) is at the core of the work. I am interested in the difficulty of using popular music as a material for art; not only is it potentially more powerful than the art made from it, but its power is highly subjective. This material situation informs the conceptual basis of my work; taking the cultural construction of subjectivity as a given, I am interested in what might remain beyond this understanding.

I also work as a priest in the Church of England.  I am interested in the relation of contemporary art and religion, but do not currently recognise any shared language with which to discuss this - at least, not at the level that either discipline requires.  I could be wrong, of course; in any case, my research as an artist is increasingly driven by this question.

 

Academic qualifications

2007-2010 HE Dip. Contextual Theology, St Mellitus College
1992-1994 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College
1989-1991 PG Dip. Youth & Community Work, Thames Polytechnic
1977-1980 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic

Teaching

2006-date Goldsmiths' College, University of London (BA Fine Art)
1998-2003 Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University (Fixed-term Tutorship, BA Fine Art) 

Visiting Lecturer

2010 - date  London College of Communication, University of the Arts  (MA Sound Art)
2010   Kingston University (BA Fine Art)
2010   Bristol UWE (MA Fine Art)
2005-2009   Bristol UWE (BA Fine Art)
1997-2009   Kensington & Chelsea College (HNC Fine Art)
2007  Norwich School of Art (BA Fine Art)
2005-date Bristol UWE (BA Fine Art)
2006 Cheltenham College of Art (BA Fine Art)
2003-2006 Goldsmiths' College, University of London (BA Fine Art)
2006 UCE Birmingham School of Art (MA Fine Art)
1997-2006 Kensington & Chelsea College (HNC Fine Art)
2006 Canterbury School of Fine Art (BA Fine Art)
1995-2005 Goldsmiths' College, University of London (MA Fine Art)
2004 Falmouth School of Art (MA Contemporary Visual Arts)
2004 University of Westminster (MA Fine Art Media Practice)
2003 Goldsmiths' College, University of London (PhD)
2003 Wimbledon School of Art (MA Fine Art)
2001 Loughborough University (BA Fine Art)
1995-2001 Leeds Metropolitan University (BA Fine Art)
2000 Sheffield Hallam University (MA Fine Art)
1999 University of Humberside (BA Fine Art)
1998 University of Westminster (BA Fine Art)

 

Gallery education

1999-2002 Serpentine Gallery, London (education programme coordination & talks)
2001-2002 Leeds City Art Gallery (lectures & workshop)
1998-1999 South London Gallery (education programme coordination)
1994 Cornerhouse, Manchester (workshops)
1994 Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (workshops)

Community education

1998-2000 FAB Youth Project, London Borough of Southwark (Video Tutor)
1998 Southwark Summer University, L.B. Southwark (Art Curriculum Coordinator)
1992-1997 Fast Forward / Untitled Art Project, L.B. Southwark (Project Manager)
1990-1992 Southwark Youth Service, London (Tutor in Charge)
1987-1990 Portobello Project, ILEA (Project Worker)
1982-1985 Stopgap Youth Project, City of Westminster (Photography Tutor)

Presentations and exhibitions

Solo exhibitions ( * denotes catalogue)

2011 My Mum (V2-Sensitive), Beaconsfield, London

2010 The Beginning of The End, Beaconsfield, London  

2006 Masochistic Opposite, Matthew Bown Gallery, London 

2005 (Version) for Lightsilver, Beaconsfield, London
2004 * Disco Maquette, Sketch, London
2002 The Return of Jackie & Judy (+Joey), Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
2002 Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin (with Janice McNab)
2001 Video Screenings by Mark Dean, IKON Gallery, Birmingham
2001 * Video Works by Mark Dean, Evolution, Millennium Square, Leeds
2000 Ascension, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
2000 * Casa de las Conchas, IMAGO 2000, Salamanca
1999 Dust, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1998 * Heavier than Air, Imperial War Museum, London (with Mark Fairnington)
1996 City Racing, London

Selected group exhibitions

2011 Vortex Revisions, Tate Britain, London

2011 A Fire In The Master's House Is Set, Chapter, Cardiff

2011 * Fraternise -, The Salon, Beaconsfield, London

2010 Pulp, POLYply8, The Centre for Creative Collaboration, London

2010 The Hand, Works!Projects, Bristol

2010 Be Glad For The Song Has No End, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

2009 The Enigma of Arrival, Leeds Art Gallery           
2009 The Other Side, The Crypt Gallery, London
2009 Mark Emblem, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Hereford
2009  * Exemplar, Hortensia Gallery, London
2008 Tsekh Gallery, Kiev
2007 * Film on Film, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed
2007 Forest, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 2007 Play Yourself, Gimpel Fils, London
2007 * Peter Stanley & Friends, Hortensia Gallery, London
2007 ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space, London
2006 * Eldorado, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg
2006 * Dance on Screen, The Place, London
2005 * Artfutures, Bloomberg Space, London
2005 Be Ready Heart; For Parting, New Endeavour, Great Eastern Hotel, London
2005 Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London
2004 * Planet B, Palais Thurn & Taxis and Magazin4, Bregenz
2004 Vinyl 2, Redux, London
2004 Atomic Art Bomb, Modern Art, Oxford
2004 Love Story, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
2003 Corpa Nova, 27 Spital Sq, London
2003 Game On, City Art Gallery, Helsinki
2003 Independence, South London Gallery, London
2003 The Last Show, Galerie P, Brussels
2003 Platform for Art, London Underground Network
2002 so Jackie, Galerie P, Brussels
2002 * ThugLife, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2002 About Belief, South London Gallery, London
2002 Game On, Barbican Art Gallery, London, & Royal Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Geometers, Nylon, London
2001 City Racing 1988 - 1998: A Partial Account, ICA London
2001 Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (Big Blue), Tate Modern
2001 New Acquisitions, Leeds City Art Gallery
2001 Video in the City, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Maastricht
2001 Self Portrayal, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
2001 Invitation, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris
2001 * WR001, WRO Centre, Wroclaw, Poland
2001 * Black Box Recorder, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
2001 * VideoROM, Valencia Biennial
2001 * Video Vibe, Contemporary Arts Centre of Vilnius, Lithuania
2001 Mute Loops, Lux Gallery, London
2001 * Why Me Not You?, Polish Cultural Institute, London
2001 VideoVideoVideoVideo, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris
2000 Exit: Art and Cinema at the end of the century, Chisenhale Gallery,
London, selected by Stuart Morgan
2000 The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2000 * Black Box Recorder, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2000 * Video Vibe, Gallery of the British School in Rome
2000 * Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London
2000 Realm of the Senses, Turku Art Museum, Finland
2000 * Version_2000, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine / Attitudes, Geneva
1999 * Imaginaria, ICA, London
1999 Mondo, Flag Project Space
1999 Klega’s Flat, Sali Gia Gallery
1999 Synchronicity, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1998 Host, Tramway, Glasgow
1998 Driving Towards Distraction, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1998 Back in Love, Coins, London
1998 * Instantaneous, Beaconsfield, London
1997 Ne me quitte pas, GlassBox, Paris
1997 Chez l’un, l’autre, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris
1997 Big Blue, Café Adler/Café Fix, Berlin
1997 jam in the park, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1997 Big Blue, Coins, London
1997 B.O.N.GO, Bricks & Kicks, Vienna
1996 Silent/Still, Hit & Run, London
1996 Flag, Clink Wharf, London
1996 I Beg to Differ, Milch, London
1995 Lost Property 1, W139, Amsterdam
1995 Lost Property 2, Great Western Studios, London
1993 * BT New Contemporaries 93, UK Touring Exhibition
1992 Mark Dean/Sera Furneaux/Richard Wright, City Racing, London
1992 A Simple Twist of Fate, Riverside Studios, London
1989 Alcohol, The Young Unkowns Gallery, London

Performances

2008 Experimental Religion #1, MoaP, Beaconsfield, London
2007 Mr Ray vs Sister Ray, Cabaret Melacholique, London

Bands

1980 Vincent Units (alto sax)
1982-4 A Popular History of Signs (electronics)
1984-5 Opera (electronics and koto)
1985-6 The Children & It (guitar & vocals)

Magazine projects

2005 CMYK CITY: Project for Miser & Now
1998 Fw190A7-Boeing: Project for Tank

Publications

2011 'When You Smile - the work of Annie Whiles', catalogue essay, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art

2011 'Concerning the word 'spiritual' in art', a-n Magazine, March

Public Talks

2011 'Art & Religion': panel discussion, ICA, London, 6 April

2011 'Art & Compromise IV', artist's talk and panel discussion, Beaconsfield, London, 3 Feb

Conferences

2011 'Commissioning New Art for Parish Churches, St. George's House, Windsor, 31 May - 1 June (paper: 'The Theology of Contemporary Installation Art'

Collections

Arts Council of England
Leeds City Art Gallery
Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg

Grants & awards

2009 Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists
2005 Arts Council of England Individual Award to Artists
1999 Cap Gemini Imaginaria Award
1993 BT New Contemporaries Award

Keynote lectures

 

 

 

Selected publications

Selected bibliography

2011  Paul Bayley interviews Mark Dean, Art & Christianity Journal Issue No 67, Autumn 2011
2011 A Fire in The Master's House is Set, Art Review, October 2011
2011 Carly Ross 'A Fire in the Master's House', Creative Review, August 2011
2011 Rachel Withers 'Mark Dean', Artforum, April 2011
2011 Eliza Williams 'Mark Dean' Art Monthly no 343, February 2011
2011 Helen Sumpter 'Mark Dean' Time Out no 2018, January 13-19.

2009   Exemplar, Kensington & Chelsea College, Catalogue
2008 Julie Bacon (ed.) 'Arkive City: Performing the Archive', Interface/University of Ulster, Belfast
2008 Catherine Moriarty & Angela Weight, ‘The Legacy of Interaction’, Tate Papers, Issue 9, ISSN 1753-9854
2007 Film on Film, Berwick upon Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival, Catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9551203-1-2
2007 JJ Charlesworth, ‘Play Yourself’, Time Out no 1928, August 1-7
2007 SH, ‘Play Yourself at Gimpel Fils’, Artvehicle no 22, August
2007 Peter Stanley & Friends, Kensington & Chelsea College, London, Catalogue
2006 Dance On Screen 2006, The Place, London, Catalogue
2006 New Art on View, Scala, London, ISBN 1-85759-443-6
2006 Eldorado, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg, ISBN 2-919923-49-8
2005 Joel Robinson, ‘Disco Maquette', Art Papers, January/February 2005
2004 Sally O'Reilly, 'Love Story', Art Monthly no. 282, December
2004 Fisun Gurner,‘ Love Story' Metro, 9 November
2004 Ian Hunt, ‘Mark Dean’, Art Monthly, no 279, September
2004 Planet B: die Asthetik des B-Movies in der zeitgenossischen Kunst, Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, ISBN 3-937577-53-X
2004 Simon Morrissey, ‘Mark Dean: Disco Maquette’, catalogue essay, July
2004 Fisun Gurner, ‘Mark Dean: Disco Maquette’ Metro, 26 July
2004 Martin Coomer, ‘Mark Dean: Disco Maquette’, Time Out No.1774, July 2004
2004 ‘Pick of the Week: Mark Dean: Disco Maquette’ Guardian Guide, 28 August 2004
2003 Arts Council Collection Acquisitions 1989 - 2002, Hayward Gallery, London, 2003,
ISBN 1-85332-230-X
2002 Liam Gillick, in Matthew Arnatt ed., 100 Reviews3, Alberta Press, London,
ISBN 3-88375-570-2
2002 Burgess, Hale, Noble & Owen, City Racing, Black Dog, London, ISBN 1-901033-47-3
2002 Una Henry & Thomas Peutz, SMART Papers: Thug Life, Smart Project Space Foundation, Amsterdam, ISSN 1381-5822
2002 JJ Charlesworth, 'About Belief', Contemporary, October 2002
2002 Lucy Fisher, 'Enter the Funhouse', Time Magazine (Europe), August 2002
2002 ‘London Preview’, ArtForum, May
2002 Mark Beasley, 'Mark Dean', Frieze, issue 68, 2002
2002 Martin Herbert, 'About Belief', Time Out No 1668, Aug 7-14, 2002
2002 Tamsin Dillon, 'Twice Upon a Time', Filmwaves, 1/2002
2002 Martin Herbert, 'Mark Dean', Time Out, March 13-2 2002
2002 PL, 'Mark Dean', Art Review, February 2002
2002 Joseph Choonara, 'Much to Console', Socialist Review, June
2002 Florence Hallett, 'Mark Dean', What's On, March 20, 2002
2002 Katie Kitamura, 'Geometers', Contemporary, February 2002
2002 Mark Currah, 'Geometers', Time Out, January 2002
2001 Valencia Biennial, Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, 2001 ISBN 88-8158-336-4
2001 Justyna Niewiara, Why Me, Not You?, Polish Cultural Institute, London, Catalogue
2001 Evolution, Lumen/Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, Catalogue
2001 'Self Portrayal', Time Out
2001 Screens/Ekrany, WRO, Wroclaw, ISBN 83-903824-6-6
2001 Peter McCarthy. 'Red Lights City Lights', ArtSpace magazine, issue 13
2000 Imago 2000, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, ISBN 84-7800-924-8
2000 Video Vibe: Art, Music & Video in the UK, Castelvecchi Arte, Rome, ISBN 88-8210-230-0
2000 Black Box Recorder, British Council, London ISBN 0-86355-454-7
2000 Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London, Catalogue
2000 Version_2000, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva, ISBN 2-940181-13-6
2000 Roy Exley 'Straight to Video' Design Week, April 2000
2000 Michael Wilson 'Mark Dean - Ascension (nothing/Something Good), Art Monthly, no. 235, April 2000
2000 Julian Stallabrass 'Art I Like', Modern Painters, Summer 2000
1999 Kodwo Eshun & John Sutherland, Imaginaria '99, ICA, London, ISBN 1-9000300-23-0
1999 Simon Morrissey, 'Nothing here, nothing to fear: The work of Graham Gussin and Mark Dean', Contemporary Visual Arts, October, Issue 25
1999 Dr. Future 'Making the Right Connections', Mute, Issue 15, Dec 1999
1999 Jonathan Romney, 'Digital Revolution', The Guardian, October 6
1999 Lynn MacRitchie, 'Life's a virtual Beach on fantasy island', FT, 22 October
1999 'Mark Dean: Imaginaria', Sight and Sound, November
1999 Simon Morley, 'Imaginaria 99', The Independent on Sunday, 10 October 26, 1999
1999 'Techno YBAs', Blueprint, No. 165, October 20, 1999
1999 Martin Herbert, 'Imaginaria: ICA', Time Out, 20-27 October
1999 Caroline Smith, ' Memory Machine: Mark Dean', Attitude, October
1999 'PC Art', Gay Times, October
1999 Charlotte Mullins, 'Visual Art Choice', The Independent on Sunday, 26 September
1999 Roy Exley, 'Mark Dean: Dust', Untitled, No. 18, Spring
1999 Sue Hubbard, 'Mark Dean: Laurent Delaye Gallery', Time Out, February, No. 1076
1999 'Imaginaria: Mark Dean', Sight and Sound, October
1998 Mark Harris, Who's Afraid of Red, White & Blue...ARTicle Press, London,
ISBN 1-873352-72-7
1998 Simon Morley, Heavier than Air, Imperial War Museum, London, ISBN 1-901623-09-2
1998 Neal Brown, 'Instantaneous: Beaconsfield, London', Frieze, June
1998 Mark Currah, 'Driving Towards Distraction', Time Out, June 3-10, No. 1451
1998 David Crawforth, Instantaneous, Beaconsfield, London, Catalogue
1998 Artist's Project for Tank , No 2, December
1996 Martin Herbert, 'Mark Dean: City Racing', Time Out, 7-14 February
1993 Stuart Morgan, BT New Contemporaries 1993, ISBN 0-9515556-3-4
1993 Catherine Milner, 'Positive Exposure for New Talents', The Times, 27 February
1993 Alison Roberts, 'No longer sold on Selling', The Times, June
1992 Peter Fleissig, 'Simple Twist of Fate', City Limits, 19-26 March