Based in London, Dean (b.1965) is a British artist. Her works reference an image database, Wikimedia Commons where Dean sources somewhat random imagery and brings them together in a grid like system. She uses her non-dominant hand to paint, as her dominant hand, "knows too much," so that she can explore the images and composition in a more open way. She uses Japanese brushes to paint, again so there is a looseness, avoiding narrative.

There’s a fragility that’s part of this work - most of them Judith thinks of in different ways (including via non-writing hand etc) but particularly this one and the uneven right hand edge, is part of the work

The text says Electro-Physiologie Photographique… this comes from electric shocks administered to change facial expressions, from a series of photographs, 19th century, Dr Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne.

The title is from: In Virgil's version of the Greek myth, Eurydice is a newly wed oak nymph who, while fleeing an attacker in the forest, steps on a venomous snake, and dies. Upon receiving news of his wife's sudden passing, Orpheus, the renowned musician and poet, descends to the Underworld, Hades, to claim her.