Melbourne based artist Belinda Fox has been selected as a finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award for her work Thrive III.
Drawing from her virtuosic skills as a former Master Printer and fusing together profoundly personal and global concerns, Fox’s work lays bare the paradoxes endemic to contemporary human experience. Working in painting, drawing, glass, sculpture, printmaking and collaboration, Fox examines the volatility of our era, excavating the iridescent beauty that flickers below the shadowy surface of conflict and despair. Currently based in Melbourne, Fox presents us with a series in which beauty is a gateway into dense conceptual terrain patchworked with blackness and light, an ‘antidote’ to our polarised epoch; a bridge connecting us through a shared – albeit almost forgotten – humanity.
The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox.
The exhibition of finalists will be on display at Castlemaine Art Museum from 11 December 2026 – 14 March 2027.
