belinda fox

finding my way

26 june - 25 july 2009

• www.belindafox.com.au

Belinda is a Melbourne artist who came to Perth earlier this year to participate in our Artist in Residence Programme.

She is becoming well known across Australia for her exquisite print making skills and was listed this year among the 50 Most Collectable Australian Artists by the Australian Art Collector. This exhibition features new work, including two very large multi-panelled print and mixed media installations, and a selection of framed prints and watercolours.

Travel has always been a significant influence on Belinda’s art, especially throughout Asia. In conversation she recalled a visit to China to Tiananmen Square, which she thought would be grim, but found it instead to be filled with families, holidaymakers and children flying kites. These children have inspired her new works, as has the notion of journeying.

She stated that her large print installations “are the culmination of a ten year period of conceptual and technical inquiry. As a meditation on past histories and future possibilities, the work is deeply personal. Multiple narratives of progress versus tradition and constructed realities play out in these installations. Ladders balance precariously, beckoning us up to enlightenment or down to safer ground, or worse... Children look down from above, seemingly impervious to the chaos and uncertainty below, but this journey is open-ended and has potentially infinite readings for the viewer.”

Belinda’s artworks can be found in many collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, Print Council of Australia, Wollongong University, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Parliament House Melbourne, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Charles Sturt University, QUT Art Museum, & BHP Billiton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

finding my way i mixed print technique 290 x 525cm 2009 $22,000
rise + fall I edition 7/14 intaglio 80 x 49cm 2009 $1,700 framed, $1,400 unframed	rise + fall II edition 7/14 intaglio 80 x 49cm 2009 $1,700 framed, $1,400 unframed
rise + fall III edition 7/14 intaglio 80 x 49cm 2009 $1,700 framed, $1,400 unframed	rise + fall IV edition 7/14 intaglio 80 x 49cm 2009 $1,700 framed, $1,400 unframed
finding my way ii mixed print technique 290 x 525cm 2009 $22,000
a fine line I edition 4/16 intaglio, lino + hand stain 108 x 70cm 2007 $2,400 framed, $2,000 unframed sold	the space between edition 8/14 intaglio 80 x 49cm 2009 $1,700 framed, $1,400 unframed
let-up painting + drawing on paper 80 x 120cm 2009 $7,700