Mataio Austin Dean
Mataio Austin Dean is an artist, poet, musician, and activist from Portsmouth, Hampshire. Born in 1996 to a Guyanese mother and an English father, Austin Dean’s practice is often centred around an interrogation of Marxism as a tool for emancipatory praxis. His work is concerned with the relationship between printmaking and orality. His works often consist of etchings and other printed matter, along with singing, writing, reciting, and speaking. Austin Dean is interested in these forms as having actant potentialities for liberation which can be embodied and actualised.
Instagram: @descend_from_yr_barren_throne
Imperial Employment, Shadowed
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, etching and drypoint on paper, approx. 38 x 30cm.
My Grandfather Carried the Sacks of Flour
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2019, lithograph on paper, approx. 46.5 x 34.5cm.
Death to Empire (1)
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2019, risograph on sugar paper (100 sheets), hessian, 21 x 29.7cm.
Death to Empire (2)
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2019, risograph on sugar paper (100 sheets), hessian, 29.7 x 21cm.
The Jumbee sugar cane and the Cutty Wren (panel 2)
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, enlarged etching colour-wave print on tyvek, hessian sacks, red nylon thread, ballast, approx. 400 x100 cm.
Burning the sugar cane and unfencing the fields
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2019, etching and drypoint on paper, dimensions: approx. 37.5 x 28cm.
Red Berbice and the Cutty Wren
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2019, enlarged etching colour-wave print on paper, nails, hessian, risograph on sugar paper, approx. 235 x 218 cm.
Colonial Structures: Baring-Wilkins
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, inkjet on paper, approx. 30 x 40cm.
Colonial Structures: Haileybury-Wilkins
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, inkjet on paper, approx. 30 x 40cm.
Colonial Structures: UCL-Wilkins
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, inkjet on paper, approx. 30 x 40cm.The Jumbee sugar cane and the Cutty Wren
,Mataio Austin Dean
, 2020, excerpt from a recording of a performance (performed in self-isolation). Media: performance (10 performers). Duration: 13 minutes (excerpt from full 21 minutes).Curriculum Vitae
Education
2016-2020
The Slade School of Fine Art
Fine Art, BA (Hons)
2013-2016
Barton Peveril Sixth Form College
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Group exhibitions
Words to Be Looked At (postponed)
Wolfson College Library, Oxford
Curator: Carey Young
2020.
The Small Press Project 04: Visions of Protest
The Slade Research Centre, London
Curators: Liz Lawes, Lesley Sharpe, Sarah Pickering, Egidija Čiricaitė, and David Blackmore
March, 2019
The Small Press project 03: Sound
The Slade Research Centre, London
Curators: Liz Lawes, Lesley Sharpe, Sarah Pickering, and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe
March, 2018
Royal Trash
The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
Curator: Giulia Casalini
March, 2017
The Masters - Intaglio
The Bankside Gallery, London
Curator: Norman Ackroyd RA
November, 2016
Publications
Poems featured in Colour and Poetry
London: Slade Press
2020
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land (Review)
The Socialist Review
July/August issue, 2018
Poem featured in: Exquisite Corpse
Slade School of Fine Art, London
2018
Follow Them True, (Review)
Socialist Worker
January, 2018
Futurators Overthrow
Portsmouth: Aspex Gallery publication
2016
Lectures, conferences, and symposia
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium - Slade Research Centre, (featured as part of a panel of speakers and poets)
The Slade Research Centre, London
March, 2019
Protest! Voices of Dissent in Art and Text, UCL Special Collections symposium, (featured as part of a panel of speakers and performers)
University College London, London
March, 2019
Anti-Racism In The Age Of Trump And Brexit - 4th Annual European Conference (London)
Platypus international conference, (featured as part of a panel of speakers)
Goldsmiths, University of London, London
February, 2018
The People’s Symposium
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
July, 2016
Radio
Chalk Hill (co-author and co-performer)
Panic FM,
2020.
Walter Rodney and Martin Carter: Voices of Revolution from Guyana
No Bounds Radio
2020.
Commissions
A Radical History of Portsmouth
Trafalgar House, Portsmouth
Mural: enlarged etching pasted on wall, ink and graphite on wall
2019
A Historical-Materialist conception of Portsmouth
Trafalgar House, Portsmouth
Mural: graphite and acrylic paint on wall
2016
Work Experience
2019-2020
Etching workshop co-leader
University College London: UCL Access and Widening Participation
2019-2020
Artists’ print cleaner
University College London: UCL Access and Widening Participation
2019
Assistant to artist Ben Connors: live set painting at Bloomsbury Theatre re-opening
University College London: UCL Culture
2016
Gallery receptionist (voluntary)
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2016
Events bar staff
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Price List
My Grandfather Carried the Sacks of Flour
2019
Lithograph on paper
£215 per print,
Edition of 20, plus artist’s proofs
Plantation Polder Flood
2020
Etching on paper
£50 per print,
Edition of 25, plus artist’s proofs
Jumbee and marble stone
2020
Etching on paper
£50 per print,
Edition of 25, plus artist’s proofs
Death to Empire
2019
Four prints: risograph on sugar paper
£0.00
Edition of 400 (100 of each print)
Imperial Employment, Shadowed
2020
Etching, drypoint, and inkjet on paper
£200 per print,
Edition of 16
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