Dean O’Brien has been a creative director, head of design, senior art director, graphic designer and a company director, in Sydney, London and Auckland. Dean is also an artist, painting predominantly with oil on canvas. His artworks are represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In January 2017 Dean started researching his family tree in his spare time, hoping that he might be able to trace a few generations. He has discovered thousands of ancestors and has gone back as far as the 9th century. He lives in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney.