VICKY LOU FOX

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TELEPHONE: +44 (0)790 345 9906
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Exhibitions
Oct 2007 Group Show, My Life in Art, London
July 2007 A Match Made in Heaven, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin
Nov 2005 Mile of Art, Hackney, London
Aug 2005 Mind Energy, Deptford Gallery, London
May 2005 Young Artists at CERN, University College London, London
Jan 2004 Directions 2004, Lethaby Gallery, London
Sept 2003 Tangible Art, The Under £500 Art Fair, London
July 2003 ConTon: The Chaos Exhibition, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Collaborative Exhibition with the Slade School of Fine Art
Feb 2001 Feat, Bau, Escola de disseny, Barcelona

Education and Qualifications
1998 - 2003 Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London. BA Honours Art and Design, Media pathway. Foundation Studies, Fine Art Media pathway
2000 City University, London. History of Western Philosophy
1998 The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Affiliations
Visiting Tutor at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London

Personal
D.O.B: 23/10/1979
Nationality: British

THE ARTIST

Vicky Lou Fox was born and raised in England. She gained a Bachelor Degree in Art and Design from Central St Martins College in 2003 and after graduating worked as Picture Editor for Modern Painters magazine. In 2006 she moved to Berlin for one year where she took up a studio and returned full-time to her artwork. She now lives and works in London. She where she is an occasional lecturer at Central St Martins College. Fox has shown work in several galleries in London, and has work in private collections throughout Europe. She is showing a new series of work from 2007.

Photography’s evolution from the scientific knowledge of chemicals equates it with a kind of alchemy. Vicky Lou Fox’s work reminds us that photography is essentially a way of drawing with light, a record of the effect of light upon paper sensitized to its touch by salts of silver.

“For me the image created by a negative is simply a conglomeration of marks upon paper. I work over the image, responding to them in purely formal terms – they serve to give rise to further patterns and abstract shapes that I coax out myself. I believe there is a hidden story to the image that is locked into the pattern of light and dark within the frame of the negative, and that’s what I want to release.”

The emergence of the image from a blank sheet of paper inspires the abstract forms that are the basis of her work. These ethereal patterns and shapes or 'light drawings' are achieved using torches (adapted with a home made filter system) to draw directly onto light-sensitive paper. Due to the particularities of using light instead of pen or pencil as a mark-making tool, drawing becomes a highly sensitized action. What would otherwise be virtually undetectable variations in the speed, angle and gesture of the artist’s movements become highly significant.

Thus the photograph is bought into the realm of drawing and painting – introducing a visible sense of time, movement and presence that the camera cannot ordinarily achieve. For Fox, this is the process of an image ‘becoming’. Through the deconstruction of conventional darkroom printing, the artist manifests and releases the unseen potentialities of the latent image.

WORK