Keynote Speaker: Dean Arlen

The idea of exploring the ‘living space’ has consumed Dean Arlen since he returned from the Ontario College of Art and Design, which he attended on a Commonwealth Fellowship. He pursued a multi-disciplinarian approach to sculpture, through installation art. This compounded his jewellery studies, done at John D Technical Institute and Visual arts diploma completed at the University of the West Indies. On returning, Arlen embarked on an objective of art and design in Trinidad and Tobago’s living space. The most memorable being the UWI Sculptural Project/The One Day Symposium 2006-2010 the Sculptural Playground ( In development). The projects he engages are extensions of his studio practice where Arlen’s col-lages and assemblages paintings have allowed him to create urban philosophical art and design language. These undertakings have strengthened his resolve to reinterpret these elements into his very own urban and rural spaces.
Email address: dean_arlen@yahoo.com

Webpage: http://darlenprojects.blogspot.com