For his 2016 Turner Prize exhibition, Michael Dean presented Sic Glyphs, a combination of works from his nominated exhibitions at South London Gallery and de Appel, Amsterdam.
Dean starts his process with writing, which he then gives a physical form. He creates moulds and casts of his words, abstracting them into an alphabet of human-scale shapes using everyday materials such as concrete, soil, sand, and corrugated sheet metal.
His sculpture (United Kingdom poverty line for two adults and two children: twenty thousand four hundred and thirty six pounds sterling as published on 1st September 2016) consists of 拢20,436 in pennies. When installing the work Dean removed one coin, so that the money you see represents one penny below the UK poverty line for a family of four.
