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, Somerset, UK, is a British abstract artist and curator.
Education
Cox received a Master of Arts (MA) in Culture, Policy and Management from City, University of London, a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts,University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea Coll ...
and a Foundation Degree
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(FdA) in Art & Design from Kingston University London in collaboration with School of Art & Design, Kingston College.
Practice
Cox has exhibited her paintings in the UK and internationally, including an exhibition of British painters in China, and has curated exhibitions in London. Andy Parkinson wrote of her work, "Lucy Cox's playful geometric arrangements, almost inhabiting a believable three dimensional space, seem to celebrate the ways in which colour creates spatial ambiguities and irregularities". Sharples described Cox's paintings as compositions which "reveal vivid organic and geometric shapes, gradations of colour, exchanges and explorations of the figure/ground relationship between translucency and opaqueness", while Robert Priseman describes herabstract paintings
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...
as "juxtaposing the autonomy of geometry with repetition and spontaneity". She is a member of Contemporary British Painting and on the advisory board of The Priseman Seabrook Collection
The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Wor ...
s.
Selected exhibitions
*2023 - ''X - Contemporary British Painting,'' Newcastle Contemporary Art, UK *2022 - ''Vitalistic Fantasies,'' Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK *2021 - ''Edge to Edge,'' The Cello Factory, London *2021 - ''Being There,'' Prosaic Projects Gallery, Bloc Studios, Sheffield, UK *2020 - ''Vitalistic Fantasies,'' The Cello Factory Gallery, London *2020 - ''Dear Christine (a Tribute toChristine Keeler
Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became s ...
),'' Arthouse 1, London
*2019 ''- Dear Christine (a Tribute to Christine Keeler
Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became s ...
),'' Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
*2019 - ''Made in Britain; 82 Painters of the 21st Century,'' Muzeum Narodowe w Gdansk, Poland
*2019 - ''Dear Christine (a Tribute to Christine Keeler
Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she became s ...
),'' Vane, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
*2018 - ''New Painting,'' The Crypt, Marylebone, London
*2018 - ''SFSA Painting Open,'' Second Floor Studios & Arts, London
*2017/18 - ''Contemporary Masters from Britain,'' Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
The Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TJ Arts; ) is a public art college in Tianjin, China. The academy is sponsored by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government.
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Museum, China
*2017/18 - ''Testcard P'', The Crypt, Marylebone, London
* 2017 - ''Contemporary Masters from Britain'', Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum
Jiangsu Art Gallery, usually known as Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum (), is a museum in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province in China. It was founded in 1936, during the Nanjing decade, as China's first state level museum. In 1960, it was formally renamed ...
, Nanjing, China
*2017 - ''Contemporary Masters from Britain'', Jiangsu Museum of Arts and Crafts (Artall), Nanjing, China
*2017 - ''Anything Goes?'' Art Bermondsey Project Space, London
*2017 - ''Contemporary Masters from Britain'', Yantai Art Museum, China
*2017 - ''Colour A Kind Of Bliss'', The Crypt, Marylebone, London
*2016 - ''Summer Exhibition'', The Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, UK
*2015/16 - ''Piercing The Veil'', Simmons Contemporary, Simmons & Simmons, London
*2015 - ''Geometry: Wonky and Otherwise'', Déda Derby, Déda, Derby, UK
Selected curation
*2020 - ''I'm in a Window Mood,'' The Aura of Abstraction on-line *2017 - ''Colour A Kind Of Bliss'', The Crypt, Marylebone, London *2016 - ''Multiple Choices'', Simmons Contemporary, Simmons & Simmons, LondonCollections
The Priseman Seabrook Collection
The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Wor ...
, UK
Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum
Jiangsu Art Gallery, usually known as Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum (), is a museum in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province in China. It was founded in 1936, during the Nanjing decade, as China's first state level museum. In 1960, it was formally renamed ...
, Nanjing, China
Publications & Media
*2023 - ''Artist to Artist: Lucy Cox Interviews Keith Murdoch'', Priseman Seabrook Collections *2023 - ''Andrew Litten: Artist of the Month'', Contemporary British Painting *2021 - ''Darkness at Noon: Online Panel Discussion,'' Contemporary British Painting *2021 - ''Catching Mice: Peter Clossick interviewed by Lucy Cox,'' The Jackdaw, May/June 2021 *2020 - ''The Exploration of Suffering and the Celebration of Beauty: An Interview with Robert Priseman,'' Lucy Cox *2019 - ''Dear Christine; A Tribute To Christine Keeler,'' Fionn Wilson (Ed.) *2018-2020 - ''Painters Today, Podcast Series'', Lucy Cox *2018 - ''Made in Britain; 82 Painters of the 21st Century,'' Robert Priseman *2017 ''- Contemporary Masters From Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century,'' Robert Priseman *2017 - ''Colour A Kind Of Bliss,'' Lucy Cox & Freya Purdue *2016 - ''Multiple Choices,'' Michael O'Donoghue & Lucy Cox'','' Simmons & Simmons *2015 - ''Piercing the Veil,'' Jon Sharples, Simmons & SimmonsReferences
External links
The Aura of Abstraction
Contemporary British Painting
Priseman Seabrook Collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cox, Lucy 21st-century British painters British women painters Living people British curators English contemporary artists Alumni of the University of the Arts London 21st-century British women artists British abstract artists 1988 births Alumni of City, University of London People from Chard, Somerset