David Fox West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
David Fox is a hand weaver and textile artist who explores materials and form with an interest in people, place or textile heritage. His studio is at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley just outside of Leeds, and is also known as Fox on the Sley.
Fox's practise experiments with double cloth three dimensional forms playing around with yarns that hold memory and shape from paper to steel mixes, including cotton and wool. He weaves on a George Wood Dobby Loom and various table looms to create textiles that unpacks or retells textile heritage and has close relationship and developing practice with Sunny Bank Mills Museum and Archive. This touch stone was formed from his BA in which he was inspired by the archives physical objects, oral histories and the mills architecture. To Fox he believes our heritage is also our future and we should hold onto the memories, the objects and the knowledge. We need to look back as well as forward. Recently he has been collaborating with Liz O'Connell as Glass Artist, together they have been exploring heritage and archives, the emotional connections and social relations we can draw from the physicality and skill of glass and weave. David Fox also creates more commercial woven textiles from homewares to accessories which sells in shops, online and at markets.
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"Hanging by A Thread" Glass and Weave Collab with Liz O'Connell01/05/2025 — ongoing This in going collaboration explores the heritage of textiles and glass due to them both being under threat, mainly glass due to The Sunderland Centre closing in 2026. The works are informed by Sunny Bank Mills Musuem and Archive and Bradford College Textile Archive. Exploring our relation with craft, skill, what has been lost and what is being... [Read more] |
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Final Collection BA in Textile Design (Industrial) University of Leeds01/09/2023 — 26/05/2024 This collection of 3D woven textiles expired place, heritage and time reimagining Sunny Bank Mills in West Yorkshire and it's Textile Museum and Archive in contempory textiles for installations. |
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"The Tools" BA in Textile Design (Industrial) University of Leeds01/09/2023 — ongoing This ongoing series of bound, wrapped objects are informed by Sunny Bank Mills Musuem and Archives Collection of a Warp Twisters (Mill Workers) tools. They had make, pass on or purchase tools they used for work, this idea that tools become an extension of who we are is of interest. |
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