The Illusion of Purpose by Victoria J Dean

Victoria J Dean’s practice explores the human propensity to rationalise space, in the context of place and landscape. Technology is restructuring our communication methods, transforming our perceptions and interactions with our environment, and rendering the physical realm comparatively cumbersome and slow.
The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

Magazine

Our printed editions, circulating throughout various galleries, festivals and agencies are dipped in creativity.

The spirit of DODHO’s printed edition is first and foremost an opportunity to connect with a photographic audience that values the beauty of print and those photographers exhibited within the pages of this magazine.

We invite professional and amateur photographers from all around the world to share their work in our printed edition.

https://www.dodho.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ban25e32.jpg

Victoria J Dean’s practice explores the human propensity to rationalise space, in the context of place and landscape.

Technology is restructuring our communication methods, transforming our perceptions and interactions with our environment, and rendering the physical realm comparatively cumbersome and slow. Disconnected from the modern digital world, these material structures and the systems in which they once functioned are obsolete. With the simplicity and directness of a symbolic form, each structure withholds its message, alluding to a relic from a forgotten language.

The Illusion of Purpose explores ideas of materiality, monumentality and the sculptural, questioning the relevance of the physical in our increasingly virtual age, and in a world of communication hijacked by technology.

About Victoria J Dean

Victoria J Dean is a photographic artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has exhibited and been published internationally including at Off_festival Bratislava, Slovakia, 2018; as a winner in the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards, Klompching Gallery, New York; and in There and Not There at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2018, and Siamsa Tire in Tralee, in 2019. She was a finalist in Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2017, and has frequently exhibited in the Royal Ulster Academy and RHA annual exhibitions, also exhibiting in the 2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Her work featured in Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography at Belfast Exposed & The Mac in 2013, and in Circulation(s): Festival de la Jeune Photographie Européenne, 2014 in Paris.

Graduating in 2017 with an MFA Photography with distinction (Ulster University), Dean received the Royal Ulster Academy Award for Outstanding Students. She was selected by Olivia Arthur (Magnum) and Anna Sparham (Curator, Museum of London) in Source Magazine’s Graduate Photography Online 2017 Selections. Dean’s book, The Illusion of Purpose was published by Another Place Press in 2018, and the series featured in Source, Issue 95.

Victoria J Dean’s work is part of the David Kronn Collection, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection, the Office of Public Works State Art Collection, and a number of private collections in the UK and Ireland. Dean is a studio holder at Flax Art Studios and is represented by the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. [Official Website]

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

The Illusion of Purpose | Victoria J Dean

Other Stories

stay in touch
Join our mailing list and we'll keep you up to date with all the latest stories, opportunities, calls and more.
We use Sendinblue as our marketing platform. By Clicking below to submit this form, you acknowledge that the information you provided will be transferred to Sendinblue for processing in accordance with their terms of use
We’d love to
Thank you for subscribing!
Submission
Dodho Magazine accepts submissions from emerging and professional photographers from around the world.
Their projects can be published among the best photographers and be viewed by the best professionals in the industry and thousands of photography enthusiasts. Dodho magazine reserves the right to accept or reject any submitted project. Due to the large number of presentations received daily and the need to treat them with the greatest respect and the time necessary for a correct interpretation our average response time is around 5/10 business days in the case of being accepted.
- Between 10/30 images of your best images, in case your project contains a greater number of images which are part of the same indivisible body of work will also be accepted. You must send the images in jpg format to 1200px and 72dpi and quality 9. (No borders or watermarks)
- A short biography along with your photograph. (It must be written in the third person)
- Title and full text of the project with a minimum length of 300 words. (Texts with lesser number of words will not be accepted)
This is the information you need to start preparing your project for its presentation
To send it, you must compress the folder in .ZIP format and use our Wetransfer channel specially dedicated to the reception of works. Links or projects in PDF format will not be accepted. All presentations are carefully reviewed based on their content and final quality of the project or portfolio. If your work is selected for publication in the online version, it will be communicated to you via email and subsequently it will be published.
Contact
How can we help? Got an idea or something you'd like share? Please use the adjacent form, or contact contact@dodho.com
Thank You. We will contact you as soon as possible.
Submission
Dodho Magazine accepts submissions from emerging and professional photographers from around the world.
Their projects can be published among the best photographers and be viewed by the best professionals in the industry and thousands of photography enthusiasts. Dodho magazine reserves the right to accept or reject any submitted project. Due to the large number of presentations received daily and the need to treat them with the greatest respect and the time necessary for a correct interpretation our average response time is around 5/10 business days in the case of being accepted. This is the information you need to start preparing your project for its presentation.
To send it, you must compress the folder in .ZIP format and use our Wetransfer channel specially dedicated to the reception of works. Links or projects in PDF format will not be accepted. All presentations are carefully reviewed based on their content and final quality of the project or portfolio. If your work is selected for publication in the online version, it will be communicated to you via email and subsequently it will be published.
Get in Touch
How can we help? Do you have an idea or something you'd like to share? Please use the form provided, or contact us at contact@dodho.com
Thank You. We will contact you as soon as possible.