Leigh Fox

About

Portrait of Leigh Fox in his studio

Leigh Fox’s body of work is split into two series, Tropic of Cancer and Gold Paved City.

His paintings in Tropic of Cancer are based on his extensive travels in Africa, India and South-East Asia. His depictions evoke the hallucinatory hyper-sensitivity of the experience of travel itself. The artist expresses his intense feelings of a changing reality alongside his role as an outside observer.

In the second series, Gold Paved City, he explores the often fragmented and disconcerting nature of existing within a city. Based on his experiences of living within the UK, Fox employs the same detached observer's viewpoint whilst adding a subtle social commentary.

Alongside this work, Fox maintains an ongoing practice of life studies, observational pieces drawn from the world immediately around him. This habit of close looking continues to influence and inform his portraiture practice.

The artist uses a range of materials painting with oil, acrylics and watercolours on canvas, paper, found materials such as large-scale wooden blocks or with everyday items such as cardboard.

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Leigh Fox studied at Camberwell College of Arts (BA, 2004 -2007) and graduated from the Royal Drawing School (PgDip) in 2012. His work has appeared in group exhibitions Schwarz Weiss and Space is Deep at Daniel Blau Gallery, Munich as well as being selected for the gallery's presentation at Art Basel in 2011. His work has featured in exhibitions as part of the collectives Bare Bones (Dazed and Confused Gallery and NEU gallery, both London) and Le Gun (La Rochelle School, Trolley Gallery and the Nog Gallery, all London). Fox was commissioned to paint the portrait of a World War II veteran which was featured in the 2013 Battle of Britain Commemoration Portrait Show, London. A number of his works are also held in the public collections of HRH The Prince of Wales Archive and RAF Museum, Hendon.

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