100cm x 76cm x 15cm

Vintage timber intrays, cloth-bound book covers

Catchment brings together vintage timber intrays and cloth-bound book covers collected from locations across the Northern Rivers of NSW. Its cross-like form spreads outward in blues and greens, suggesting waterways, canopy and country seen from above. Through repetition, colour and carefully ordered fragments, familiar discarded materials are transformed into an abstracted landscape that reflects the geography and character of the region in which they were found.

Dean Stewart is an artist and designer based in Ballina in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.

Dean works with found objects and reclaimed materials, creating contemporary assemblages that explore form, place, memory and the histories held in everyday things.

His background in interior design, visual merchandising and signwriting continues to inform his practice. An attraction to architecture, graphic form, typography and spatial composition can be seen throughout his work, from the way individual elements are ordered and repeated to his use of colour, line, symbols and numerals.