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From carving late artist names on his table, to keeping the hot pink hallway painted by the previous occupant, artist Michael Dean has a penchant for nostalgia in his east London home. It’s a space rich in emotion and emulsion.

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Has He Got Hues for You

'When decorating his house in far-east London, artist Michael Dean has been both laidback and bold, colour-drenching walls and ceilings in everything from scarlet to eggy yellow with the help of his two sons. Indeed, he actually prizes their imperfection – ‘a great excuse for dodgy edges’ – as well as the palimpsest offered by the previous occupants’ idiosyncratic paint shades'

#MichaelDean's East London home – including many of his artworks and handcrafted concrete designs – features in the May issue of The World of Interiors (@theworldofinteriors), with an interview by Holly Black (@hollyejblack) and photography by Simon Watson (@simonpwatson). Link in bio to read.

Has He Got Hues for You

'When decorating his house in far-east London, artist Michael Dean has been both laidback and bold, colour-drenching walls and ceilings in everything from scarlet to eggy yellow with the help of his two sons. Indeed, he actually prizes their imperfection – ‘a great excuse for dodgy edges’ – as well as the palimpsest offered by the previous occupants’ idiosyncratic paint shades'

#MichaelDean's East London home – including many of his artworks and handcrafted concrete designs – features in the May issue of The World of Interiors (@theworldofinteriors), with an interview by Holly Black (@hollyejblack) and photography by Simon Watson (@simonpwatson). Link in bio to read.

Has He Got Hues for You

'When decorating his house in far-east London, artist Michael Dean has been both laidback and bold, colour-drenching walls and ceilings in everything from scarlet to eggy yellow with the help of his two sons. Indeed, he actually prizes their imperfection – ‘a great excuse for dodgy edges’ – as well as the palimpsest offered by the previous occupants’ idiosyncratic paint shades'

#MichaelDean's East London home – including many of his artworks and handcrafted concrete designs – features in the May issue of The World of Interiors (@theworldofinteriors), with an interview by Holly Black (@hollyejblack) and photography by Simon Watson (@simonpwatson). Link in bio to read.

Has He Got Hues for You

'When decorating his house in far-east London, artist Michael Dean has been both laidback and bold, colour-drenching walls and ceilings in everything from scarlet to eggy yellow with the help of his two sons. Indeed, he actually prizes their imperfection – ‘a great excuse for dodgy edges’ – as well as the palimpsest offered by the previous occupants’ idiosyncratic paint shades'

#MichaelDean's East London home – including many of his artworks and handcrafted concrete designs – features in the May issue of The World of Interiors (@theworldofinteriors), with an interview by Holly Black (@hollyejblack) and photography by Simon Watson (@simonpwatson). Link in bio to read.

Has He Got Hues for You

'When decorating his house in far-east London, artist Michael Dean has been both laidback and bold, colour-drenching walls and ceilings in everything from scarlet to eggy yellow with the help of his two sons. Indeed, he actually prizes their imperfection – ‘a great excuse for dodgy edges’ – as well as the palimpsest offered by the previous occupants’ idiosyncratic paint shades'

#MichaelDean's East London home – including many of his artworks and handcrafted concrete designs – features in the May issue of The World of Interiors (@theworldofinteriors), with an interview by Holly Black (@hollyejblack) and photography by Simon Watson (@simonpwatson). Link in bio to read.

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

BUFFET 4 London January 26th 2026: So many great pieces to include! Featuring Michael Dean @ffffucksake @daniel_burley @ellosexy @joiner.b @erika_trotzig and @laura_ford_sculpture #contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #funart

THE SCULPTURE — Michael Dean, Unfuckingtitled (fuckin’ starvin’/ hungry), 2023

#michaeldean #art #contemporaryart #sculpture #pattern

THE SCULPTURE — Michael Dean, Unfuckingtitled (fuckin’ starvin’/ hungry), 2023

#michaeldean #art #contemporaryart #sculpture #pattern

THE SCULPTURE — Michael Dean, Unfuckingtitled (fuckin’ starvin’/ hungry), 2023

#michaeldean #art #contemporaryart #sculpture #pattern

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

Find the full article as well as other conversations, reviews and exhibition highlights in our newest issue. Get your copy now via the link in our bio!

"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

Find the full article as well as other conversations, reviews and exhibition highlights in our newest issue. Get your copy now via the link in our bio!

"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

Find the full article as well as other conversations, reviews and exhibition highlights in our newest issue. Get your copy now via the link in our bio!

"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

Find the full article as well as other conversations, reviews and exhibition highlights in our newest issue. Get your copy now via the link in our bio!

"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

Find the full article as well as other conversations, reviews and exhibition highlights in our newest issue. Get your copy now via the link in our bio!

"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

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Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

Michael Dean at Herald St, London
“Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)”
May 1 – June 8, 2025
Photos: courtesy of the artist and Herald St, London
@ffffucksake @herald_st #michaeldean #heraldstgallery

This Sunday! On the occasion of London Gallery Weekend, join us for Michael Dean’s performance ‘Shaking a spear at William. Part 1’ at #HeraldSt.

Sunday 8 June, 3pm

Herald St
2 Herald St
London E2 6JT

Kindly RSVP to:
rsvp@heraldst.com

‘Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)’, Dean’s exhibition at Herald St, will be open between 11am–5pm for those wishing to visit before or after the event.

This Sunday! On the occasion of London Gallery Weekend, join us for Michael Dean’s performance ‘Shaking a spear at William. Part 1’ at #HeraldSt.

Sunday 8 June, 3pm

Herald St
2 Herald St
London E2 6JT

Kindly RSVP to:
rsvp@heraldst.com

‘Kicking Die (To Scale With a Ladder)’, Dean’s exhibition at Herald St, will be open between 11am–5pm for those wishing to visit before or after the event.

#michaeldean

TOMORROW OPENING

Kicking Die (To Scale With A Ladder)

Opens Wednesday April 30 x
Herald St. Bethnal Green

Lead balloon game piece. 2025
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