House Wins
, 2024House Wins by Dylan Bell is a bold pop art piece that delves into themes of power, control, and insight. Measuring 91 x 122 cm, this acrylic spraypaint artwork features a striking depiction of a black crow, often associated with omens, perched against the backdrop of a roulette wheel.
The wheel is filled with numbers, including several repetitions of the number 33, symbolic of seemingly unlucky or fateful events. The vibrant background, composed of chaotic fluorescent colors, contrasts with the crow’s somber matte black form, representing the noise and disorder of modern life. The crow, though blind, is a figure of prophecy and insight, connecting the material world with the spiritual realm. This adds layers of meaning to the artwork, suggesting that even amidst confusion and chaos, some universal truths remain—such as the inevitability of "the house always winning." Bell’s use of multiple paint finishes, from matte to gloss, enhances the visual complexity of the piece, making it a dynamic and captivating focal point. This large-format pop art painting serves as both a visual spectacle and a thought-provoking commentary on power structures and fate. It would make an impactful addition to a modern living room, office, or gallery space, where its vibrant colors and symbolic imagery can be appreciated.
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Biography
Dylan grew up and studied in New Zealand, where he created large ‘paste-up’ pieces and developed a love for the graphic qualities of photocopy, and screen-printing. He moved to Scotland and taught in the Lothians before leaning back towards developing his own practice. More recently his small batch, hand-produced pieces have gained a pop vibrancy, both in colour and imagery. Current works predominately use a variety of over-printing techniques with stencil blocked spray-paint as a base. Spraypaint is his number one medium, offering endless possibilities for creative layering, especially in conjunction with silkscreens.
His collectable numbered editions (on paper), the stencilled and paste-up street art, and re-worked vintage one-offs that he produces cover a wide range of subject matter and themes. He uses images of well-known locations, architecture, nature, pop-culture, typography, street art, and vintage magazines/comics to make graphically hand cut pieces for his collectors, and the public. His works are easily recognised by the colour key in the margin, which show the individual colours used and number of layers that have been built up.
“My mind breaks everything into a series of block-layered colours. I enjoy focusing on the graphic geometries of images, their registry points, and look at all compositions as a series of colour strata. Collating, and playing around with; old postcards, vintage art, comics, and pop culture imagery, gives me a starting point for compositions, a place to drop my craft-knife into, old-school analogue hand-cut stencils”.