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.

Works
Exhibitions
Biography

Education

1999 University of Melbourne, Australia

1996 BFA, Printmaking, Victorian College of the Arts, Australia

Selected Collections

National Gallery Victoria VIC • National Gallery of Australia ACT • Art Gallery of NSW • Print Council of Australia VIC • Banyule City Council VIC; Burnie Art Gallery TAS • Wollongong University NSW • Fremantle Arts Centre WA • Artspace Mackay QLD • Swan Hill Regional Gallery VIC • Gladstone Regional Art Gallery QLD • Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery QLD • Warrnambool Art Gallery VIC • Mildura Arts Centre VIC • Queen Victoria Museum TAS • Parliament House Melbourne VIC • Gold Coast Art Gallery QLD • Charles Sturt University NSW • QUT Art 

Museum QLD • BHP Billiton Melbourne • ArtBank, NSW • AMP Tokyo • Tweed River Regional Gallery NSW • Hamilton Regional Gallery VIC • Manly Art Gallery and Museum NSW • Janet Turner Print Museum Chico, CA, USA • Women’s Club NSW

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Yield, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022 Still/Life – New prints, Australian Print Workshop, VIC

2021 Gratitude, Maybaum Gallery. San Francisco, CA

2021 Cultivate, Arthouse Gallery, NSW, Australia

2020 Close to Home, Michael Reid Galleries, Berlin, Germany
2020 Fragment-ed, Gallerysmith, VIC, Australia

2020 Fault/Lines, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 Introduce Yourself, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 Drawing a Line, Michael Reid Galleries, Berlin

2017 Tapestry, Arthouse gallery, NSW, Australia

2017 Tilt, Manly Museum, NSW Australia

2016 Still/Life, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2016 Balancing the World, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore

2014 Excavate, Arthouse gallery, NSW, Australia

2013 Hua Ping, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2013 Everything is Connected, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore

2013 Back to the Start, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

2012 The View from Here, Art House Gallery, Sydney

2011 Deeper the Blue, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

2011 Slip, Art House Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2010 Day to Day, Beaver Galleries, ACT, Australia

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 I am Here, curated by Katherine Hattam, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2020 Fruhlings An Australian Spring, Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2019 Art Miami, Maybaum Gallery, Miami, FL

2019 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA

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 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, NSW, Australia

2018 Seattle Art Fair, Maybaum Gallery, Seattle, WA

2018 Formal Dimension, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 Ambassadors Residence, Den Haag, Netherlands

2017 Australasian painters, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia

2017 2x5, Grafische Werkplaats, Den Haag, Netherlands

2017 Hyper-botanical, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia

2016 Art Stages, Jakarta, Indonesia

2016 Paul Guest Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC, Australia

2016 Art Stages, Singapore Art Fair, Singapore

2015 Common Ground, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore

2015 The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me), Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia

2015 Balancing the World, Sydney Contemporary Art fair, Australia

2014 Excavate, Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea

2013 Grounded, Australian High Commission, Singapore

2012 Inspiring Artists, Pat Corrigan Artists Grants, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW

2012 Give and Take – collaboration with Neville French, Beaver Galleries, ACT

2011 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery Australia, ACT

2011 Personal Space, contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints, NSW/China

 

 

Events
News
Bibliography

French,Neville “The two of us – TILT’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 56/2 pg87-91

Nina Karaicic, “Belinda Fox at The Cat Street”, Widewalls, 2017

Lianhe Zaoao, “Belinda Fox”, Chinese Daily Newspaper, 25/1/16

Cheah Ui-Hoon, “Delicate balance of painting and sculpture”, The Business Times Singapore, pg28, 4/12/15

Kempson, Bryan, Barkley, Naylor, Guest, “Back to the Start”, monograph, published by Goff Books 2015

Lucy Stranger, “PROFILE”, Artist Profile Magazine, Issue28, pg53-55, 2014

Brett Ballard “Belinda Fox Slip”, review, Ceramics Art and Perception, Vol22/12 pg112-114

Altair Roelants, “The Narrative of Place”, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol50/3, pg20-25 2011