Belinda Fox

Born 1975, Melbourne, Australia

Lives & Works – Melbourne (Eltham, Wurundjeri)

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.

Forging an international career in Australia, USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Jakarta, Fox has received several notable awards including the Paul Guest Drawing Prize (2010) and Burnie Print Prize (2007) and been a finalist in the National Works on Paper Prize (2026, 2020), Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2024), Swan Hill Print & Drawing Award (2022, 2018, 2006, 2004) and Fremantle Art Prize (2007, 2006, 2003). In 2026, she was awarded the Creative Australia International Travel Fund Grant to launch her second monograph ‘Cultivate’ in the United States. This follows the publication of her first monograph ‘Back to the Start’ (2015). Her work is held in major collections including the 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.