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Author: deansmithdancingbear
Dean Smith aka“Dancing Bear” is a Melbourne based practicing Sculptor/performer who loves to indulge in many forms of art. He has a BA in Fine Art Sculpture and has lived extensively through the United States and Europe. Deans grounding inspiration comes from his life experience and the connection with animals and mother earth, and his passion to create drives him to be known and respected within his lifetime.
Ronald Victor Smith (Grandfather)
The latest works ( bronze ) Is a WW2 portrait of my Grand Father . He Died in 1964 from Post Traumatic Disorder.
Bronze Soldiers
Lennie Green Vietnam Veteran Paying homage to our local boys that fought for their lives in the Vietnam War. Our Australian troops were drafted in the 60s and 70s. Official unveiling date 11.00 am 18th August …
Mecha Festival 2019
Kinetic sculpture / Performance art / Group show / Interactive Exhibition Cake Industries present STELARC, DEAN SMITH, CAKE Industries,MADAME TULALAH, CASEY JENKINS, NINA SELLARS, OLOLO, ZLATKO BALAZIC, MAGIC LANTERN, PERFORMPRINT, EXPEN$$$IVE, SWEAT DREAMS DIS(C)TopiA The Festival Mecha is a new and unique arts festival showcasing the best of robotic and mechanical sculpture, performance art, sound,…
Mr John Wotherspoon c.1856 bronze+cedar
A portrait of the renowned Beaufort identity John Wotherspoon has been commissioned by the lovely Beaufort Garden Society. The Wotherspoons were integral to the foundation of the town of Beaufort. Post modern artist breaks out into mixed media. This portrait will combine enduring bronze with the cedar that was felled in Beaufort…
Anzac Sculpture
At the Beaufort Memorial Gardens
Guards at ease – Beaufort War Memorial
Two WW1 ANZAC soldiers have been commissioned by the Beaufort Historical Society for the Memorial Gardens in Beaufort
The Rub of Love
A FOOT FETISH Spotlight on the small bronze “The Rub of Love” BRONZE, 2012 The Rub of Love is a reference to the Dylan Thomas poem “If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love”. … If I were tickled by the lovers’ rub That wipes away not crow’s-foot nor the lock Of sick…
Iceland Residency
A cairn is a stack of stones, in Scottish Gaelic language. Cairns have been and are used from prehistoric times to the present as signs and signifiers.
Smythesdale Ship Tree
Hold your tongue and say, “I was born on a pirate ship” Earth Ship, Cypress Pine 2016
Gang of Cockatoos
We like to refer to a totem when we create animal sculptures, to start exploring the subject at a theoretical level. The strongly social nature of Cockatoo emphasizes a sense of a community, and the skills needed to maintain these relationships like communication and compromise. Cockatoo’s showy crest and its use in communication exudes…
Melbourne Dreaming, by Meyer Eidelson
Originally posted on ANZ LitLovers LitBlog:
I have had a wonderful day today, thanks to this exciting new edition of Melbourne Dreaming, A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present. It is, as the name implies, a guide to the indigenous heritage of our city. First published in 1997 but now updated, the guide…
eat the wagon wheel
This sacred totem is shown horizontally : an anti-totem. We speak of the value of size; weight, mass and logistics. This kind of abundance (the totem of the bison, of the giant redwood Sequoya) no longer exists. We stand on the shoulders of the almighty giants of the pre-modern age. We hope human kind can…
peregrine falcon valley lake
Five totem poles at the Valley Lake estate, in a linear park connecting Basalt Ave and Olivine Road, Keilor East. This work was commissioned by Places Victoria, with Maureen Benier of Scape Environments doing the master planning. Thanks to Melissa Vucovik at Tract Landscape Architects for making it happen and all the boys at…
Small bronze sculpture
After “going bush” for an extensive spiritual period representing animal totems carved in wood, Dean Smith Dancing Bear returns to the city, returns to bronze, returns to figurative study, and rather than dwelling on the melancholy realities of the human world, he presents a series of romantic portraits with a narrative of joyful antics, flamboyant…
kodiac bear
The Dancing Bear totem
Performance Art
The Space Simulator – Marquette ; Performance at the Seaman’s Mission – Dean Smith, Couch, Suspended
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