David Fox

David fox is a tullamore native from the irish midlands and now lives and works as a visual artist in dublin city centre. He graduated from gmit (galway) in 2011, followed by belfast school of art in 2013, where he graduated from the mfa course at ulster university. His artistic practice is routed primarily within contemporary landscape painting. He paints site-specific landscapes that capture moments of everyday life most often associated with excursions during leisure time. These depictions are often of mundane and overlooked everyday spaces. What is recorded is an uncanny sense of place and time and there is an obvious connection between the artist and the landscape itself. The locations are often known which evokes a nostalgic sense of familiarity. The viewer is then drawn in by the ambiguity and other world qualities of these relatable yet unpopulated site specific scenes. He paints settings and locations of his current surroundings at any given period of time, including that of his nativetown of tullamore, where he spent some time for the duration of the lockdowns, and also whilst living in dublin.

Then there are also scenes from his time spent living in Belfast where he created a series of social-politically charged works d...

MFA, Belfast School of Art, 2011
BA in Fine Art, Painting at GMIT, Galway, 2009