Belinda Fox

Overview

Belinda Fox is a multidisciplinary artist, working in printmaking, painting, ceramics, and sculpture. Her work, which is often described as beautifully rendered and technically accomplished, investigates fragility and imbalance in an increasingly unstable world. Belinda Fox brings together elements of tradition, an artistic sensibility in her contemplation of our physical and metaphorical landscape, and a desire to find intimacy in what resides around us. With a technical mastery now characteristic of her work and a refusal of confinement to any one medium or form, Fox toes the line between abstraction and figuration, between intimacy and solitude, between the positive and the negative. She has won numerous awards for her printmaking and drawing including the Paul Guest Drawing Prize, the Burnie Print Prize and the Silk Cut award for lino- cuts. She has received funding grants to undertake artist in residencies in USA, Greece, Singapore, Darwin, Perth, Sydney and Tasmania and she has participated in major survey exhibitions of contemporary Australian printmaking in the UK, China and Australian Regional galleries.

Drawing from her virtuosic skills as a former Master Printer and fusing together profoundly 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. Currently based in Melbourne, Fox presents us with a series 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.

Belinda Fox has forged an international career showing in Australia, USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Jakarta. She has received several notable awards including the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Award (paper category) 2022, Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2010), and Burnie Print Prize (2007) and been a finalist in many awards including the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award (2022, 2018, 2006, 2004) and Fremantle Art Prize (2007, 2006, 2003). Fox has taken up many residencies including a sculpture project with Urban Arts Projects (UAP) in Shanghai, painting in Provence, France, printmaking at C.A.P Studios, Thailand and Skopelos, Greece. Her work is also held in major collections including the Kunstmuseum, Netherlands, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Artbank, Fremantle Arts Centre, Print Council Of Australia, Swan Hill Regional Gallery and Wollongong University. In 2016 a monograph of Fox’s practice was published by Goff editions, USA, titled ‘Back to the Start’.

Her work has been displayed at the National Gallery of Australia and collected by National, Regional and Corporate collections globally. In 2015 Goff Editions published a monograph ‘Back to the start’ charting Fox’s career to date. Prior to 2006 Fox worked as a master printer and workshop manager at Port Jackson Press Australia, collaborating with leading Australian artists including John Olsen, Tim Storrier and David Larwill and Dorothy Napangardi. Belinda Fox is currently based in Melbourne, Australia and she studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. Belinda is also a registered artist of The Stroom, Den Haag.

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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
2024 and the little things, Arthouse Gallery, Darlinghurst, Australia
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