Belinda Fox

"As a person you are dealing with all of your world at once. There is the weight of the world, the everyday politics around us - the Ukraine war, the environmental concerns I am constantly considering in my everyday and in my practice. Then there are the burdens you grapple with personally - for me that is trying to be a mother, working through the hurdles as they come. One cannot separate those personal concerns from the worldly, and the presence of these two sides of our pressures intermix constantly in my practice, and in Yield I try to balance those two sides of me and yield to how they change me as an artist, as a mother, as a person."

“Landscapes often are the anchors for a body of work. From the one or two concrete places in the series bursts forth the rest. The abstracted forms nod towards the plants I walk by every day in my backyard in Melbourne, the colours and the light pull from the memory of my roadtrips with my daughter in the Hague. And though the work can become very abstract and organic, it stems from where 'home' has become for me, in the past or present."

 

- Belinda Fox

Yield, 2023

 

Marked by a deep concern for the human experience and the natural world, Belinda Fox’s work deploys a multitude of artistic techniques to address her expansive subject matter. Fox, who was born in Melbourne and formally trained as a printmaker, uses multiple material approaches in her compositions. A single image might contain the careful and considered lines of a masterful drawing combined with the loose and gestural application of watercolor or acrylic paint. These starkly opposing methods are deployed so deftly that it can take the viewer a moment to sense how intricate and textured her works are. The control of her lines against the pulsing, slippery sense of color and pigment are a perfect metaphor for Fox’s interpretation of the beauty and the chaos of living in the contemporary moment.

 

Each piece is an amalgamation of Fox’s interdisciplinary practice. The very surface where her techniques intermix pays homage to Fox’s roots in printmaking, mark making, textures, and materiality, and allows the viewer to observe the “worlds within worlds” that are so characteristic of her work. A feather in the wing of one of Fox’s birds might contain an entire abstract painting in and of itself. These intricate details offer the viewer a contemplative experience, a portal to new ways of seeing and looking at the world, and a safe space to yield to its never ending dichotomies.