Tom Fox is an Irish painter living and working in Limerick. Recent group exhibitions include: ‘6 x 6 Showcase’, 411 Gallery, Hangzhou, China (2005); Iontas Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery (2003 & 2005); Contact Group Show, Printmakers Gallery, Limerick (2003) and ‘Quadrant’, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick (2001).

"This series of paintings are essentially landscapes, in format and in earth tones. The primary thought process behind the work is the bipolarity of the world. Both positive and negative, light and dark, the underbelly, the opposite of the 'shiny happy' world of cultural optimism. At the same time, the hills are signposts in nature, a space for contemplation, light and optimistic in a realistic sense. Human presence is represented by words and symbols. Caught in unknowing, they are the macrocosm and the microcosm. They can have an alchemical effect on the canvas. Often they are appropriated from the eighties band The Smiths; ‘The bedsit nation’, ‘I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar’."

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