Belinda Fox

Overview

"To conjure an object into existence, with your own hands, something that never existed until that moment – well, that is the greatest job one could ever have. I feel so lucky to do this every day."

Drawing from her skills as a former Master Printer and fusing together personal and global concerns, Belinda Fox’s work lays bare the paradoxes endemic to contemporary human experience. Working in painting, drawing, glass, sculpture, printmaking and collaboration, Fox examines the volatility of our era, excavating the iridescent beauty that flickers below the shadowy surface of conflict and despair. Having grown up in regional Victoria, and lived in Singapore and The Netherlands, and currently based in Melbourne, Fox presents us with artworks in which beauty is a gateway into dense conceptual terrain patchworked with blackness and light, an ‘antidote’ to our polarised epoch; a bridge connecting us through a shared – albeit almost forgotten – humanity.

Forging an international career showing in over 35 solo exhibitions to date in Australia, USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Jakarta. Fox has received several notable awards including the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award (2022), Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2010), Burnie Print Prize (2007), Silk Cut lino print award in (2004), and been a finalist in many awards since 2000. Fox has taken up many national and international residencies in Shanghai, France, Thailand, Greece, Perth, Darwin, Canberra, Melbourne, Tasmania. Her work is also held in major collections including The Kunstmuseum, The Netherlands, Janet Turner Museum, USA, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Artbank, Art Gallery of Ballarat and Bendigo Art Gallery. In 2016 a monograph of Fox’s practice was published by Goff editions, USA, titled ‘Back to the Start’ in 2016. In 2022 Fox was awarded the Australian Print Workshop Collie Trust Printmaking fellowship, VIC.

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Works

Illuminate I - c
Illuminate II - b
In the Weeds II
Looking Up I
Renewal
Still
The Conversation
The Guardian I
The Guardian II
The Long Game I
The Long Game II
The Storymaker II (hold me up)
The Storymaker III (hold me up)
The Wait
Watershed

Exhibitions

Biography

Education
1999 University of Melbourne, Australia
1996 BFA, Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts, Australia

Selected Collections
Kunstmuseum • Women’s Club Sydney • Janet Turner Print Museum • Art Gallery of New South Wales • National Gallery of Victoria • National Gallery of Australia • Print Council of Australia • Ballarat Art Gallery • Banyule City Council • Burnie Art Gallery • Wollongong University • Fremantale Arts Centre • Artspace, Mackay • Swan Hill Regional Gallery • Gladstone Regional Art Gallery • Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery • Warnambool Art Gallery • Manly Art Gallery & Museum • Mildura Arts Centre • Queen Victoria Museum • Parliament House Melbourne • Charles Sturt University • QUT Art Museum • ArtBank • AMP Tokyo • BHP Billiton Melbourne • Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre • Hamilton Regional Gallery • Bendigo Art Gallery • Whitehorse Council Collection
• Art Gallery of Western Australia

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Tipping the scales, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2024 Let’s Begin, Australian Galleries, VIC

2024 More than this, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
2024 the light crept in, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia
2023 Yield, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Add it Up, Mildura Art Centre, Australia
2022 Still/Life, Australian Print Workship, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Gratitude, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Fragment(ed), Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Fault/Lines, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Close to Home, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin
2019 You need the light to cast a shadow, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Introduce Yourself, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Pedastal, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Drawing a Line, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin
2017 Tapestry, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2016 Tilt, Manly Museum & Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 Balancing the World, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore
2015 Excavate, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 On Paper, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Australia
2023 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 Surface Effect, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australia
2023 40x40, Austrailian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Austrailia
2023 Paper/Clay, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2022 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 Baldessin Press - The Legacy, Australia Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Out of the Blue, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2021 I am Here, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2020 Fruhlings An Australian Spring, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin
2020 Renewal, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019 The Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia
2019 Reflections of a Fading Sky, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2019 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2019 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 All We Can’t See, Yellow House, Sydney
2018 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2018 Op de vriendschap!, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2018 Size Matters - a question of scale, Chan Hori Gallery, Singapore
2018 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Formal Dimension, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Surprise: new acquisitions, The Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico
2018 Australian Ambassador’s Residence, Den Haag, the Netherlands
2017 Australasian Painters, Orange Regional Gallery, Australia
2017 2x5, Grafische Werkplaats, Den Haag, the Netherlands
2017 Hyper-botanical, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Art Stages, Jakarta, Indonesia
2015 Common Ground, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore