Fox Irving

Our second Artist in Residence was nominated by Lois Keidan, co-founder and the Director of the Live Art Development Agency.

During their time as our Artist in Residence, they worked with our community group Woodwork For Wellbeing to re-design our garden - thank you Fox for bringing this pop of colour to our space! Fox also used their time in our studio to work on their writing and develop their practice as a playwright.

Fox Irving’s art is shaped by the liminal, precarious identity they inhabit as queer/femme/working class. With a playful, DIY approach informed by activist strategies and centering collaboration, Fox investigates how art can be used as a tool of empowerment by their own marginalised communities. They ask: what keeps people in place, what affords fluidity, and what kinds of assembly can be transformative? 

Discouraged from studying art, Fox left school and trained instead as a nurse- to have a 'proper' job, a stable income, to create their own stability. Whilst working full-time, they went to night school to study art. They began to exhibit their work and was announced as one of the emerging artists at the Women of the World Festival, at the Southbank Centre in 2013. Whilst still in full-time employment, they gained a scholarship to obtain a Masters in Visual Arts at Camberwell, graduating with a distinction and several awards.