Mataio Austin Dean

Mataio Austin Dean uses intaglio printmaking to create images and symbols that explore England and Guyana’s darkly intertwined histories, throwing light upon moments of resistance as well as unearthing stories of coloniality and rebellion embedded in English landscape and architecture. Austin Dean’s practice is research-driven, exploring Marxism as a framework for emancipatory praxis. English and Guyanese oral cultures are at the heart of the work. Reimagining, writing and performing folksong and poetry breathes life into the printed landscape, making the past tangible while presenting liberating modes with which to confront the present.

Drypoint print by Mataio Austin Dean Guyanese sugar Cane Punts on the River Arun, Sussex.

Sugar Cane Punts on the River Arun Water-Meadows

by Mataio Austin Dean.

Drypoint on paper,

13.6 x 7 cm,

Edition of 5,

2020.