CAREER PATH
2019 Inclusion in The International Encyclopedia Of Surrealism. Text by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson (2000 words) Volume ll pages 301 - 305, images Volume lll Contemporary Surrealism
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 to explore automatism, exhibition Hearts & Bones at The School Creative Centre, Rye. Private funding.
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.
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
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
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. Programme with Conroy Maddox
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Chaos is my Friend, HAF Hastings, curator Lesley Barker
2018 Le Collage Surréaliste en 2018 Mooring Gallery, 88 rue des Rosiers, Paris also Maison André
Breton, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, The Paris Surrealist Group & l'Association la Rose Impossible
Little Shop of Magic 2 Centre Space Gallery, Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent, W Steventon
Stains & Traces IV Hastings Arts Forum, curated by Sally Meakins. Also 2017, 2016, 2014.
2017 Surrealist Murmurations, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, curated by J Welson & J Richardson
In The Light Of Surrealism II HAF Hastings, curated by Jo Welsh. Also 2013.
The Archaeology of Hope Hope Beach, Shanklin, Isle of White, curated by M Fluin & P Cowdell
How to Make an Archive Travel? Women's Art Library (WAL), Goldsmiths University, London
2016 At The Light of the Glazed Castle CAE, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, curated by Rik Lina &
Miguel de Carvalho
2015 Little Shop of Magic curated by Wedgwood Steventon, Gallery 116, Stoke
Once Upon A Time In Hastings 3 person exhibition HAF, Hastings
2014 Recreating Memory Hastings Arts Forum
The Hunt For The Object Of Desire Galerie ESPACE, Montreal, Quebec
2013 Perma Culture with Styx publishers Swedish National Gallery, Stockholm
Levitandum 2 person exhibition, Gallery Arkitektvägen 44, Stockholm
Domestic Disturbance International Women’s Day The School Creative Centre, Rye
2012 Free For All: automatism Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent
Other Air The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists 1990-2011 Old Town City Hall, Prague Surrealism in 2012: toward the world of the 5th sun Cohen Gallery, Goggle Works
Centre for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
2011 Beta Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent
2010 Women in Surrealism Museo de la Soliaridad, University of Chile, Santiago
Festival of Sound Fylkingen, Stockholm. Collaboration with Johannes Bergmark
2009 Hearts and Bones supporting residency (automatism) and exhibition The School Creative
Centre, Rye
El Umbral Secreto Museo de la Solidaridad Dalvador Allende University of Chile
Iluminações Descontinuas Convento de Sã José, Lagoa, Portugal
2008 O Reverso Do Olhar Casa Municipal da Cultura, Coimbra, Portuga
The World is a Terrible Natural History Pisek City Museum, Pisek, Czech Republic
As Far As My Legs Can Carry Me Terezin Memorial Museum, Czech Republic.
2007 Natural Order: Art, Science & The Clarity of Mud 5th International Symposium on Surrealism
Sussex Barn Gallery, West Dean Estate, AHRC
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 Étoile 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
La Parenté n’est pas Héréditaire Ostraske Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
1999 Svatokradez: (Sacrilege; the magical against the real) Salmovsky Palace, Prague
1997 Celebrating Scotland–Africa Society of Scottish Artists. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1996 Hourglass 10th Anniversary Espace UVA, Paris
1995 Die Galerie, Die Künstler, Das Überraschungesel Galerie 13, Hannover, Germany.
British Surrealism 1935-1995 England & Co, London
1995 Curiouser & Curiouser Hourglass, Espace UVA, Paris
Fantasy 15 British women artists selected by W.A.L. The Cultural Foundation, Abu
Dhabi The Woman’s Club, United Arab Emirates and Isis Gallery, Hadleigh, UK
1994 Einbeinges Pferd Entlaufen Galerie13 ,Hannover
1993 Der Ameisengel in der Blütenpress Galerie 13, Hannover
Le Labyrinthe des Songes 3 person exhibition, Espace UVA, Paris
Labyrinth Museum Zielona Gora - Poznan Zoologischer Garten (Poland) - Galerie 13,
Hannover
1992 Art in Boxes England & Co, London + 20th Century British Arts Fair, London
Weitläufige Reichweite 2 person exhibition , Galerie 13, Hannover
Déciphrage 2 Galerie 13, Hannover
1991 Distance intime Galerie Neuf, Paris
PUBLICATIONS & WWW
Books/Writings: Crítiques & Images
2019 The International Encyclopedia of The Surrealism: edited by Michael Richardson, Dawn Ades,
Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Steven Harris, Georges Sebbag, Bloomsbury Publishing
2015 The Surrealism Reader: An Anthology of Ideas, edited by Dawn Ades and Michael Richardson
with Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Tate Publishing
Once Upon A Time In Hastings: review by Cathy Simpson:
2014 Stains & Traces: The Figure Revisited, review by Cathy Simpson:
What will be: Almanac of the International Surrealist Movement, Brumes Blondes
2013 Rarely Pretty Reasonable, David Greenslade, Dark Windows Press
2012 Alpine Phantoms, Neil Coombes, Dark Windows Press
2011 The Spaces of the Unconscious: Ezra Plummer, AHRB Centre for the Studies of Surrealism and
its Legacies, Papers on Surrealism, Issue 9, pages 233-239 pdf
My Space Kathleen Fox: Luca Yang (contributing editor World Art Magazine, Shangai 我的空间
My Space ( 凯瑟琳·福克斯，遁入生命的潜意识房间 )
Less of that W or I’ll Z You, John Hartley Williams, Surrealist Editions
2010 Kathleen Fox’s Spaces of the Unconscious Chloe Pantazi, University of London
2005 The Clarity of Mud: Roger Cardinal, Emeritus Professor at University of Canterbury, Kent
2000 L’Etoil Matin Surréalisme et Marxisme. Michael Löwy, Editions Syllepse, Paris
1999 A Bestiary of Communion: A Totemic Understanding of Certain Paintings by Kathleen Fox, by
Stephen Clark, Manticore
1996 Contrary to Expectations: Notes on Surrealism in England with an overview of some of it’s
current practitioners: Barbara Heins and Michael Richardson
Anecdotes Claude-Lucien Cauët, Brocliade, Les Petits Plis, Paris
Die Galerie, Die Künstler, Das Überraschungsei, Rainer Wichering, Galerie 13, Hannover
1995 Toujours à Retardement M-D Massoni, Atelier De Création Libertaire, Paris
1994 Georges Bataille: The Absence of Myth M Richardson, Verso, London
Einbeinges Pferd en Tlaufen, Rainer Wichering, Galerie 13, Hannover
1993 Der Ameisnigel in der Blütenpresse, Rainer Wichering, Hannover, Germany
Journals
'A Phala 3' edited by Sergio Lima, Surrealist Movement of Sáo Paulo, Brazil, 2014; ‘Other Air The Group of Czech-Slovak Surrealists 1990-2011’ Art Movement, Sdruzeni Analgonu 2012; ‘Hydrolith: Surrealist Research & Investigation’ Oyster Moon Press, 2010; ‘Patricide’ editor Neil Combes, Dark Windows Press; ‘Phosphor’ editor Kenneth Cox no 2 Surrealist Editions, Leeds, 2009, no 1 2008; ‘Brumes Blondes’ editors Her de Vries & Laurens Vancreval, series 4 no 2 Netherlands 2009 series 4 no 1 2008, series 3 no 6 2007, series 3 no 5 2006; 'Analogon’ Prague Surrealist Group, no 55 and 56 2008, no 25 1999, no 19 1997, no 15 1995; ‘Au Nord de Quoi?’ Editions Bonneville, France, 2008; ‘S.U.U.R.’ editor Marie-Dominique Massoni, Paris Surrealist Group, no 5 2005, no 4 2003 ; ‘Manticore’ editor Kenneth Cox no 4 Leeds, 1999
Investigations, Enquiries & Games
'Ompalus' Merl Fluin 2019, 'The Polymorph Bodyshop', Peculiar Mormyrid 2019, Peculiar Mormyrid 7 spring 2018, Peculiar Mormyrid 6 winter 2017, editors: Angel Dionne, Steve Cline, Patrik Sampler, Casi Cline, Jason Abdelhadi; 'The Archaeology of Hope' Merl Fluin and Paul Cowdell 2017;'Andre Breton's Arcane 17, a lodestar for the 21st century' John Richardson and John Welson; 'Alice the Looking Glass Threw’ John Welson and John Richarson 2014; 'Amulet’ SLAG 2011; 'News From The Already Dead’ SLAG 2010; ‘Permeating A Symbol’ Bruno Solarik and Katka Pinosova, Czech Republic 2008; ‘Au Bon Endroit’ Guy Girard and Marie-Dominque Massoni, Paris 2006; ‘A Quiet Mermaid’ Eugenie Morin, Paris 2006; ‘London International Festival Of Surrealism’ SLAG UK 2006; ‘The Pen And The Iris’ Wedgwood Steventon 2002 UK; ‘Ecoutons Voir!’ Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement 2001; UK 1995; 'Touch Silver" Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson 1994; ‘A Game Of Collective Absence’ Kenneth Cox Leeds Surrealist Group 1993; ‘Plan 9’ D Broboski and P Goodman, Thumor, Netherlands,1992; ‘A Game Of Collective Absence’ Krzysztof Kijalkowski and Michael Richardson UK 1991