kathleen fox
CAREER PATH
2019 Inclusion in The International Encyclopedia Of Surrealism. Text by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson, Volume ll pages 301 - 305, Volume lll page 414 + 3 images, Bloomsbury publishing
2017 Selected for the project How to Make an Archive Travel? by Women's Art Library (WAL), Goldsmiths, University of London, led by Dr Ana-Maria Herman. Funded by Women's Art Library, Goldsmith's Research Development Funds (GIG) and Goldsmiths' Public Engagement Grants.
2010 Residency and exhibition The Spaces of the Unconscious at the Freud Museum, London, linking Freud, Surrealism and my investigations into the unconscious. Funding: Henry Moore Foundation & Norwich University College of the Arts. Curated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Catalogue, text by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Supporting conference The Spaces of the Unconscious and film premiere Surviving Life directed by Jan Svankmajer.
2009 Supporting a residency (Guy Girard) to explore automatism, exhibition Hearts & Bones at The School Creative Centre, Rye. With Guy Girard and Wedgwood Steventon.
2007 and 2005 Exhibitions at West Dean Estate, 5th and 4th International Symposiums on Surrealism, funded by AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies. Text by Roger Cardinal
2001 Selected and funded by KCC Arts & Libraries to take part in Animation & Video Workshop.
2000 Selected: one of four contemporary artists to make new work for the project Valley of Vision: Samuel Palmer & The Ancients Revisited, funded by KCC and SEArts.
1999 Selected by SEArts to have work on AXIS National Database.
1998 Cross-Regional Grant to support two exhibitions in Prague, Vnitrni Kontinent/Inside Continent, (solo) and Svatokradez/Sacrilege (group) funded by South East Arts.
1987 moved to England from South Africa
1980 - 1982 Michael Pettit School of Art, Cape Town
1977 - 1979 Natal University, 7/10 credits. Major: English Literature
1966 - 1969 Foundation and Fine Art Diploma, Natal College of Art (Natal College for Advanced Technical Education), Durban
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 DREAMING THE FOUND, Farleys Gallery, Chiddingly, East Sussex
2016 DETOUR: CYCLISTS DISMOUNT Fundacion Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2011 MAPPING MEMORY Easton Rooms, Rye Gallery, Rye
2010 THE SPACES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Residency and Installation, Freud Museum,
London, curated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, supporting catalogue and symposium
2007 RESPONSE (Hidden Myth) Maidstone Library & Gallery, KCC Arts and Libraries
2006 MOSTLY MUD Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
2005 THE CLARITY OF MUD 4th International Symposium on Surrealism, West Dean Estate
AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
2005 BENEATH THE TIDE Easton Rooms, Rye Art Gallery,Rye, Sussex
2001 DREAM GAME Rye Art Gallery, Rye
2000 DREAM LOGIC Sevenoaks Library Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
1999 VNITNI KONTINENT - INSIDE CONTINENT Galerie Vysehrad, Prague, Czech Republic
1996 GAME 1 Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells. Relaunch Programme with exhibition by Conroy
Maddox and talk by Roger Cardinal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 CERTAINTIES-NOTHING IS AS USUAL, and launch of publication JUSTA MOMENT!
Konnektor-Forum für Künste, Hannover 30451, curated by C Leunig and R Wichering
THE INTERNATIONAL SURREALIST EXHIBITION OF COLLAGE 2021organised by
The Recordists, online exhibition www.thesecretroomgallery.com
2020 LOCKDOWN: work done during COVID 19, HAF, Hastings, curated by Lesley Barker
2019 EXPOSIÓN 100 AÑOS DE SURREALISM, Centro Cultural Espacio Matta, Chile,
organised by Enrique de Santiago of Derame
THE POLYMORPH BODYSHOP The Bakery, Atlanta,Georgia and East Village Arts,
Birmingham, Alabama, organised by Peculiar Mormyrid
SURRÈALISTE en le DESSIN en 2019, Mooring Gallery, Saint Ouen, Paris also Maison
André Breton, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, organised by Paris Surrealist Group
CHAOS IS MY FRIEND, HAF Hastings, curator Lesley Barker
2018 LE COLLAGE SURRÈALISTE EN 2018, Mooring Gallery, Rue des Roses, Saint-Ouen,
Paris also Maison André Breton, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, organized Paris Surrealist Group
STAINS AND TRACES IV, curator Sally Meakins, also 2017, 2016, 2014. HAF Hastings
LITTLE SHOP OF MAGIC 2, Spode Museum & Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, with W Steventon.
2017 SURREALIST MURMURATIONS, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, with J Welson & J Richardson
IN THE LIGHT OF SURREALISM II, HAF, Hastings, curated by Jo Welsh, also 2013
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF HOPE, Hope Beach, Isle of White, M Fluin & P Cowdell
HOW TO MAKE AN ARCHIVE TRAVEL? Womens Art Library WAL, Goldsmiths University.
2016 AT THE LIGHT OF THE GLAZED CASTLE, CAE, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, organised by
Debout Sur L'oeuf
2015 LITTLE SHOP OF MAGIC, Gallery 116, Stoke-on-Trent, Wedgwood Steventon
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HASTINGS, 3 person exhibition, HAF, Hastings
2014 RECREATING MEMORY, Hastings Arts Forum, curated by Sally Meakins
THE HUNT FOR THE OBJECT OF DESIRE, Galerie ESPACE, Montreal, Quebec, La Liason
Surréliste á Montreal
2013 PERMA CULTURE with Styx publishers Swedish National Gallery Stockholm
LEVITANDUM, 2 person exhibition with Patrick Hourihan, Gallery Arkitektvägen 44,Stockholm
DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE, International Women’s Day The School Creative Centre,
2012 FREE FOR ALL, automatism Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent, curated by
Duncan Brannan Visual Arts Officer, Kent Arts & Culture Service
OTHER AIR, The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists 1990-2011 Prague City Hall
SURREALISM 2012: Toward The World of the 5th Sun, Cohen Gallery, Goggle
Works Centre for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA, with Joseph Jablonski
2011 BETA Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent, curated by Duncan Brannan
2010 WOMEN IN SURREALISM, Museo de la Soliaridad, University of Chile, Santiago, Derame
2009 HEARTS AND BONES residency and exhibition The School Creative Centre, Rye with
Guy Girard and Wedgwood Steventon
EL UMBRAL SECRETO Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende organised by Dreame
ILUMINACOES DESCONTINUAS Convento de Sã José, Lagoa, Portugal, Debout Sur L'oeuf
2008 O REVERSO DO OLHAR Casa Municipal da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal, Debout Sur L'oeuf
THE WORLD IS A TERRIBLE NATURAL HISTORY Pisek City Museum, Pisek, Czech
Republic, organised by The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists, Prague
AS FAR AS MY LEGS CAN CARRY ME Terezin Memorial Museum, Czech Republic,
organized and curated by The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists, Prague
2007 NARURAL SCIENCE: ART, SCIENCE & THE CLARITY OF MUD 5th International
Symposium on Surrealism, Sussex Barn Gallery, West Dean, curated by S-M Kusunoki
POSTCARDS TO MARIO CESARINY Museum Municipal Prof.J.Vermelho, Estremoz,
Portugal
2005 PROFANE REVELATION Fundacion Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2003 ART OF THE IMAGINATION Cork Sreet , London. Also in 2002 and 1999.
2002 ÈTOILE AUX TROIS CRISTAUX Maison Communale d’ Evere, Brussels.
2000 ENGLISH SURREALISTS Kabinet Hendrik Beekman, Murrum, Netherlands.
EVEIL PARADOXAL Biennale de Conches, Maison des Arts, France, Paris Surrealist Group
LA PARENTÈ N’EST HÈRÈDITAIRE Ostraske Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
1999 SVATOKRADEZ (Sacrilege; the magical against the real) Salmovsky Palace,
Prague, curated by The Group of Czech–Slovak Surrealists
1998 98 FISH PUBLISHING PRIZE Triskal Gallery, Cork, Ireland
MONMARTRE IN EUROPE Marie du XVIIIe, Monmartre, Paris
1997 CELEBRATING SCOTLAND-AFRICA Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
1996 HOURGLASS 10th ANNIVERSARY Espace UVA Paris, organised by Peter Wood, Hourglass
1995 DIE GALERIE, DIE KÙNSTLER, DAS ÙBERRASCHUNGESEL Galerie 13, Hannover
THE DISCERNING EYE Mall Gallery, London. British Surrealism
BRITISH SURREALISTS 1935-1995 England & Co, London Curated by Jane England
CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER Espace UVA, Paris, organized by Peter Wood, Hourglass
FANTASY 15 British women artists Women’s Artist Library, The Cultural Foundation, Abu
Dhabi, also The Woman’s Club, United Arab Emirates and Isis Gallery, UK
1994 EINBEINGES PFERD ENTLAUFEN Galerie13, Hannover, curated by Rainer Wichering
1993 DER AMEISENGEL IN DER BLÙTENPRESSE Galerie 13, Hannover, Rainer Wichering
LE LABYRINTHE DES SONGES 3 person exhibition with Peter Wood and Guy Girard,
Espace UVA, Paris, organised by Hourglass
LABYRINTH Museum Zielona Gora also Poznan Zoologischer Garten (Poland), and Galerie 13
Hannover, (Germany) curated by Rainer Wichering
1992 ART IN BOXES England & Co, London + 20th Century British Arts Fair, London
WEITLAUFIGE REICHWEITE 2 person exhibition , Galerie 13, Hannover, Rainer Wichering
DECIPHRAGE ll Galerie 13, Hannover, Germany, curated by Rainer Wichering
1991 DISTANCE INTIME Galerie Neuf, Paris, curated by Peter Wood, Hourglass