Artists
Sue Fox
Fox is currently researching performance artists and experimenting with creating short films. She has photographed extensively in mortuaries, hospitals, graveyards and crematoriums, funeral parlours, derelict buildings, dominatrix’s dungeons and slaughterhouses. Her current area of photographic work is sex.
Exhibitions:
‘All Go Digital’ Manchester Metropolitan University Academics Show at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China in May 2007, touring to Xiamen University in Oct 2007 and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China in Nov 2007. Curator Tongyu Zhou
‘Six Feet Under’ tour to Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany in Sept 2007-end of March 2008.
‘Six Feet Under’ an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland from Nov 2006 to Jan 2007
‘Conversations on the Subject of Feminism’ at Cornerhouse, Manchester July-August 2005. Supporting exhibition for ‘Prologue’, a European women’s showcase.
‘Sex, Death and Flat Pack Furniture’ an exhibition at the Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University from March-April 2005.
‘Explore, Expand, Exchange’ cur. Ben Coode-Adams @ Manchester Musuem, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester. Oct-Jan 2004
‘Rogue Open Studios’ @ Rogue Artists Studios, Piccadilly, Manchester. Nov 2006/Dec 2005/Nov 2004/Oct 2003/Nov 2002/Oct 2001
‘Debenhams Showcase for Artists’ cur. Comme Ca PR @ Debenhams, Tib St, Manchester. Summer 2001
‘Up’ A show with Antony Crook @ Kiosk Photography Gallery, Manchester. Feb-Apr 2000
‘Inferno’ cur. Paul Stone @ Guildhall, Quayside, Newcastle. Oct 2000
‘Late Liberties’ @ Museum de Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany which toured Swiss National Museum, Munich/Musee Suisse, Zurich and Historiches Museum Bielefeld. Nov 2000-2001
‘The Liminal Body’ cur. Alasdair Foster @ Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, and Australia. Sept-Oct 2000
‘Psycho’ cur. Danny Moynihan @ Anne Faggionato Gallery, London. Feb-April 2000
‘La Mort’ @ Gilles Peyroulet & Cie Gallery, Paris with Nick Waplington. Oct-Nov 1999
‘Recontres Internationales de la Photographie’ cur. Gabriel Bauret @ Arles, France. July 1998
‘The Dead’ @ Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada. Sept-Oct 1997
‘Flying Over Water’ by Peter Greenaway @ The Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. Mar-May 1997
‘What She Wants’ cur. Naomi Salaman @ Kvindmuseet I Danmark, Denmark. Jan-Mar 1996
‘The Dead’ cur. Val Williams & Greg Hobson @ National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford. Oct 1995-Jan 1996
Publications:
‘Fifteen plus One’ edited by Alan Dunn featuring the work of Sue Fox, Peter Greenaway, Simon Grennan, Peter Fraser, Paul Melia, Len Grant, Mark Wallinger & Julia Manheim.
Book launched at Cornerhouse, Manchester, July 2007
‘The New Visbility of Death’ by Prof. Thomas Macho, Dr. Helga Lutz and Krisitin Marek pub. By Willhelm Fink. The book comprises all talks and images by artists on the conference of the same name, in Berlin in 2005, with artists such as Fox, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Theresa Margolles, Hans Danuser, Rudolf Schafer and Birgit Richard.
'Art and Obscenity: On the Margins of the Aesthetic in 20th century Western Visual Culture' by Professor Mey, University of Belfast 2007. I.B. Tauris
‘Six Feet Under’ – Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead cur. Bernhard Fibischer, 2006
‘Still Life’ a publication by Iris, Staffordshire University with work by female writers & photographers 2006
‘Photography: A Critical Introduction’ by Liz Wells 2004
‘Transgressions – the Offences of Art’ by Anthony Julius. Thames & Hudson 2002
‘Project Leben’ by Jelden, Jung, Loth. Ernst Klett 2001
‘Photography – A Crash Course’ by Dave Yorath 2000
‘Vile Bodies – Photography & the Crisis of Looking’ by Chris Townsend. Prestel Verlag 1998
‘Post Mortem’ by Sue Fox. Viewpoint Gallery & London Arts Council 1997
‘Flying Over Water’ by Peter Greenaway. Merrel Holberton 1997
‘The Dead’ by Val Williams & Greg Hobson. London Arts Council 1995
‘What She Wants’ edited by Naomi Salaman. Verso 1994
Television Appearances:
A three part series called ‘VILE BODIES’ on contemporary and international photographers for Channel 4 television (Blast Films) in 1998/2000, exploring the taboo nature of things. Included in the series were Saville, Peter-Witkin, Serrano, Mann, Wapplington, & Fox.