Richard Cox

Richard Cox studied fine art in Southend, Newport, Birmingham, and London, UK. He moved to Wales in 1975, continuing his art practice and teaching at the University of Wolverhampton (formerly Wolverhampton Polytechnic); Royal College of Art, London; Delhi College of Art, India; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and working as a visual-arts organizer.

From 1983 to 1998 Cox was Visual Arts Officer at SEWAA and directed the artist-in-residence and international exchange programs of the Arts Council of Wales. He has been an artist-in-residence at Kunstakademiett i Trondheim, Norway; Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, University of Hijiyama, Hiroshima, Japan; Delhi College of Art, Delhi; and Rajasthan School of Art, Jaipur, India.

In the late 1980s Cox visited Philadelphia regularly and collaborated with Allan Edmunds, Founder and Executive Director of Brandywine Workshop and Archives, to organize the Wales/Philadelphia Visual Artists Exchange from 1987 to 1992. During these visits he editioned four prints at BWA working with Bob Franklin, the BWA's acclaimed printmaking technician.

Since 1993 Cox has worked with artists in India and toured his exhibition Subterranean Architecture: Stepwells in Western India between 2008 and 2018 to 17 galleries in India, the UK, and United States, starting with Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran Centre, Wales, in 2008; Tamarind Art Gallery, New York City, in 2010; and Montclair State University, NJ, in 2012.

His work is in some 30 public collections in the UK and internationally, including the National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff; The State Museum at Majdanek, Lublin, Poland; Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India; British Council New Delhi, India; Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales.

Cox's work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff, Wales; Cardiff School of Art & Design, Wales; Aberystwyth University School of Art, Wales; Art Central Gallery, Barry, Wales; and Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales. He was senior lecturer and gallery director at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, from 2004 to 2013. Cox lives in Cardiff, Wales.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1946

Buckinghamshire, England

Gender

Male

Nationality

English

Heritage

Western European

English