She makes films and does photography. "Her practise of drawing took form of storyboards, a narrative format used in the planning of movies. Her taste for storytelling triggered many of her works, often based on the possibilities raised by chance encounter.
Dean gave equal weight to fictional and historical narratives, emphasising their power of evocation: notions of time, memory or nautical elements are part of her personal themes.
Deans works play poetically on the theme of searching as well as on the blurred identities of mysterious people or things.
Deans stories embraced the notion of struggle over elements, which explain the recurrence of the sell as a major protagonist in her work.
Deans minimal narratives are imbued with a sense of human failure and never ending expectation resulting from actions that are curiously both heroic and modest.
Some of Deans later works are reminiscent of the works of Berud and Hilla Becher in their focus on derelict places endowed with powerful history. The quaint and obsolete buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999, she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings, already saved from destruction in 1988.
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