As a talented printmaker Alan Cox has focused this medium on subjects that exploit his immediate subject matter - domestic situations and ‘ready-made’ still lives. Using both the intricate process of lithography in contrast to the more robust, bold marks that woodcut offers, Cox uses his printmaking skills together with an eye for colour that result in this selection of prints which span the last 10 years of his practice.
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Since graduating from The Central School of Art, London in 1965 Cox has exhibited widely in both the UK and internationally including group shows at the Barbican Centre, London and the Royal Academy, London, where he exhibited alongside Ivor Abrahams, Peter Blake, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, Gary Hume, Vanessa Jackson, Phillip King, Richard Kirwan and Bruce McLean. Cox has also had numerous solo exhibitions including ‘Stones’ at the Jordan Gallery, London and also the Glasgow print gallery, Scotland, who also published a print edition. Cox has won prizes at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Krakow print biennale, Poland and Anteneo Popular Esteban Echeverrier, Buenos Aries, and has work in many collections including the British Council, the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, the Government Art Collection, Great Britain and the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, England.
He now lives and works in London.