Stephen Cox began his career making minimal plasterboard reliefs, with early works being exhibited at the Lisson and Whitechapel Galleries.

However, it was in 1979, when Cox went on a ‘Grand Tour’ of Italy that his creations transformed into their current distinctive style. At once highly contemporary yet also seemingly reminiscent of some lost civilisation, the unmistakable presence of Cox’s vast yet precise figurative sculptures form an indelible impression on their surroundings, and upon those who view them.

First the Mediterranean and later India (where Cox still has a studio) have been the central influences on his work, which has been acquired…

Stephen Cox began his career making minimal plasterboard reliefs, with early works being exhibited at the Lisson and Whitechapel Galleries.

However, it was in 1979, when Cox went on a ‘Grand Tour’ of Italy that his creations transformed into their current distinctive style. At once highly contemporary yet also seemingly reminiscent of some lost civilisation, the unmistakable presence of Cox’s vast yet precise figurative sculptures form an indelible impression on their surroundings, and upon those who view them.

First the Mediterranean and later India (where Cox still has a studio) have been the central influences on his work, which has been acquired by, amongst others, the Tate Gallery and the British government, which commissioned a piece for the Cairo Opera House as a gift to the Egyptian people.

He has collections at both the V&A and the British Museum, the latter representing his ‘Prints and Drawings’.

In 2005 he had works commissioned by Lord Rothschild for Waddeston Manor and Lord Cholmondeley for Houghton Hall.