About

Belinda Fox

1975, Melbourne.

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 in collaboration, Fox examines the volatility of our era, excavating the iridescent beauty that flickers below the shadowy surface of conflict and despair. Fox grew up in regional Victoria and lived in Singapore and the Netherlands, and is 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 Award for linocut printmaking (2004), and been a finalist in many more. Fox has taken up national and international residencies in Shanghai, France, Thailand, Greece, Perth, Darwin, Canberra, Melbourne and Tasmania. Her work is also held in major collections including the Kunstmuseum (the Netherlands), Janet Turner Museum (USA), Art Gallery of New South Wales (NSW), National Gallery of Victoria (VIC), National Gallery of Australia (ACT), Art Gallery of Western Australia (WA), Manly Art Gallery & Museum (NSW), HOTA (QLD), Queensland University of Technology Art Museum (QLD), Artbank, Art Gallery of Ballarat (VIC), and Bendigo Art Gallery (VIC). In 2016 a monograph of Fox’s practice was published by Goff editions, USA, titled Back to the Start. In 2022 Fox was awarded the Australian Print Workshop Collie Trust Printmaking Fellowship, VIC.

(photo by: Pia Johnson)