Figurative sculptor born on 1 February 1950 in Maidstone, Kent, but latterly based in Aldborough, Norfolk. He died, aged 41, of kidney disease on 4 August 1991. He worked in wood, marble and bronze, his principal interest the human body, particularly the female body which he rendered with elongated, sensuous forms. His Wind in the Willows Fountain (1974) is on Hay Hill, Norwich. In 1990, he produced a replica of the village sign originally created for Earl Soham, Suffolk, by Ray Exworth in 1953.
Ancestry website: (i) England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index … 1950, Q1; (ii) England and Wales, National Probate Calendar … 1992.
Bibliography: R. Cocke, Public Sculpture of Norfolk and Suffolk, Liverpool, 2013, p. 32; Geni website: ‘Nicholas Austen Deans (1950–1991)’; thestudiogallery.com: Nick Deans.
Terry Cavanagh, April 2025