Tina Fox

About the Works

Crochet has become a part of my identity.

It is a defining characteristic of myself expression and art and often the way the world and others relate to me. My art forms threads of connection between memories of women, family and culture of the past, present and future.

The making itself also creates physical changes in my body from deep calm and meditation to tension and pain that lingers.

The work in this show reflects on that physical and mental connection by recreating my eyes, head, heart and womb. Blinking, pulsing, throbbing, staring, questioning, uncertain, crying, dark and finally drained and blank.

I am crochet.

About Tina Fox

Tina Fox is a NSW based textile and digital artist.

Tina uses crochet to explore themes of making, technology and tradition. At the core of her practice is a desire to integrate crochet into contemporary themes, with hybrids and follies that are questioning and introspective.

She uses crochet as her exclusive medium because it is the only craft technique that cannot be automated, or mass produced by machine. Any crochet work is always made by hand.

Her work continuously oscillates between expression in stitch and pixel. Often the stitches are treated as pixels and the pixels become woven, stretched, unravelled and looped. The made is un-made and captured in digital photography, flat bed scans, stop frame animation and digital video. The digital is employed and integrated with textiles to produce images, film and textiles that create a newly crafted language.

Tina has exhibited large public textile sculptures in Sydney for the Vivid Light Walk, The North Sydney Art Prize, Sculptures by the Harbour, Sculpture at Sawmillers Prize and Sydney Architecture Festival.

Tina has been selected as a finalist for several art prizes including the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and the Meroogal Women's Art Prize and was selected for the Tamworth Textile Triennial 2020. She currently has work in the International Art Textile Biennale that is touring Australia.

Tina was the recipient of the Skein Sisters Yarn Innovation Award at the Seed Stitch Contemporary Textiles prize in 2020, exhibited at the Australian Design Centre. The winning work 'Electric Sheep' is now held in the collection of Tamworth Regional Gallery.

Image top: Tina Fox, Head and Heart, 2024. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist

Globus Hystericus, 2024
cotton thread, cotton fabric, foam, glass beads
$6,500

What Why Who When, 2024
cotton thread, cotton fabric, foam, glass beads
$6,500

Lashes, 2024
cotton thread, cotton fabric, foam
$6,500

Perception, 2022
cotton thread, timber
NFS

Head and Heart, 2024
digital animation
Limited edition $2,500

Apparition, 2022
digital animation
Limited edition $2,500

The Artist Stripped Bare, 2024
digital print onto cotton, cotton thread
$1,800

The Artist Stripped Bare, 2024
digital animation
Limited edition $2,500

12 weeks, 2018
digital animation
Limited edition $2,500