Nick Fox (born Durban, SA, 1972) studied at Liverpool John Moores (1992-1995) and Royal Academy Schools (1998-2001). Fox lives in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK where he is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University.
Fox’s work and research draws on queer histories, folklore, myth, literature, personal and subcultural symbols that speak to narratives and thresholds of desire, longing and to the complexities of intimate personal relationships, giving rise to a keen sense both of the pleasures and the limits of double meanings in the construction of codes.
In his visual art practice, Fox explores relationships, between raw sentiment and its symbolic, visual and material articulation through painting, drawing, object d’art, cyanotype photograms, sculptural installation and participatory projects. The work gives form to ideas of transition, transformation, and to the uncertainty with communicating and connecting across the emotional spectrum.
Fox has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions includeYou make me feel, FILET Space London (2023); Half-light, Vane Newcastle(2016); Nightsong, Touring from Norway (2012) to Newcastle and London (2015) , Phantasieblume London (2009) touring to Newcastle and Norway.
In 2015 Fox presented BadSeed, a survey exhibition of over 100 works as part of Queer Season the first LGBTQ festival at Sutton House, National Trust. Fox was a Recipient of the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Award (2007), and in 2010, he was a prizewinner of the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
His work has produced two artist monographs, ‘Nick Fox: Phantasieblume’, published by Centre for Recent Drawing and Art Editions North (2010) and Nick Fox Nightsong published by Art Editions North (2013).
In 2023, Fox performed/DJ’d Longing Disco, a Live participatory project exploring the symbolic role of loss and music as a transformative tool for human relationships, at EMST - National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Athens.
Nick Fox has Work in numerous private and public collections Including the collections of the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Museum of Contemporary Art, London, Jean Pigozzi, Jigsaw, David Roberts Foundation, AN Magazine, and Sir Norman Rosenthal.
