Belinda Fox is a lyrical abstract artist who has based her prints around ‘positive/negative’ forces, both on an individual and global level.  In all of her work the search for belief and harmony is close to the surface, but increasingly issues such as the Iraq war, the current disregard for basic human rights and the replacement of morality with apathy has seen her work become fractured with doubt.  A trip made to Tibet and China in 2006 and the contrasts between these cultures has also had a major impact.  The clash between traditions and progress was evident in Tibet and her imagery has stemmed from these observations.  Belinda uses a combination of man made material with natural pigments to emphasise this struggle while exploring the concept of balance and hope by combining blurred foregrounds or backgrounds with symbols such as the Bodhi tree, war images and the lotus.

Belinda graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996, and completed her Graduate Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne in 1999.  She has travelled extensively in India, Nepal, Laos, Tibet and China and has used these travels as important sources for her work.  Belinda was a master printer and manager at Port Jackson Press between 1999 and 2005.  In 2004, Belinda helped edition Dorothy Napangardi’s prints at Crown Point Press in the USA and was an invited speaker at the National Gallery of Australia’s 5th Print Symposium.  Recently she completed a residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute and travelled to Tibet and China on Australia Council and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grants.  Belinda was the winner of the prestigious 2004 Silk Cut Award for linocut prints and was recently awarded the 2007 Burnie Print Prize.  Her work is is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia as well as State and Regional art galleries.