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Dr Jenna Fox is a British artist whose PhD research examines alter egos as a space to explore uncomfortable emotions, which led to new creativity. Sculpture and painting is how she represents intangible feelings in a unique way with a clear intention of the process, concept and materials. Her work retains a childlike quality, and their creation is iterative and slow. This process helps form the resolved pieces, which mimic the unpicking of difficult feelings, and encourages conversations about trauma and otherness. Her practice uses multiple colours and materials as a mechanism to relate to how we are framed by our past, traumatic experiences and how this is part of our identity, the context, history, time and perspective. Her work presents a physical, structural presence of the intangible, which vocalises uncomfortable subjects such as abuse, survival and coping mechanisms. It is also informed by her experiences and those of others. Her art practice sits with the exploration of mental health, of otherness and the progression of self. It explores how our past informs our identity and the spaces we can use to create alternative narratives. Her PhD evolved with the work taking an auto-narrative confessional focus. By using alter egos as a space, it enabled her to tap into alternative identities, alternative outcomes and view
trauma from alternative viewpoints.
She has exhibited extensively across the UK and was selected for Wells Contemporary 2022 for an installation of huge flowers. Her work is on show at Reading station with a mural 10m x 3.3m and at the Reading Festival site with a huge mural painted in June 2025. In May 2023 she held a solo show at Guildford Cathedral and the Sunbury Gallery. She has exhibited at The National Trust, for The RSPB, Earley Station, Trowbridge Town Hall, Cromwell Place Gallery and The Crypt Gallery London, and is on permanent display at South Western Rail, The Sculpture Park Farnham, The War Horse memorial at Royal Ascot, Frimley Park Hospital and West Swindon Parish Council. She has just completed a huge mural at Oxford Road, Reading for NWR in September 2025.
Exhibitions / Residency
September 2026 - March 2027 - Alternative Landscapes. Thames Lido
September / October 2026 - Mural commissioned by Reading Council at Granville Underpass.
June 2026 - Solo Exhibition. Reflect. Ebb and Flow, Reading
May 2026 - Welcome. Mural commissioned by RCLC, Reading
May 20th - June 27th - Aftershocks and Echoes Exhibition. Caversham Gallery
April 2026 - Playscape Residency at Jelly Reading
18th October 2025 - 10th January 2025 - Bath Society of Artists - Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
September 2025 - The Portrait of Oxford Road, Mural, Opposite Reading West station for NWR
July 2025- VIBE Mural at Cows Lane, Reading for NWR
July 2025 - Of Other Spaces Exhibition
March 2025 - A Walk in Nature - Swindon Mural
June - September 2024 - Residency at University of Reading
November 2023 - 2024 - Reading Ballad II, The Biscuit Factory, Reading
September 2023 - 2026 - Reading Ballard, at Reading station
Solo show 2023 May - June, If not now when? Guildford Cathedral
2023 Work installed at Reading station
October 2022 - Bath Open Art Prize, Bath
Live Painting 2022 15th /16th October, Swindon ArtFest
Solo show 2022 July - September, If not now when? Sunbury Gallery
July 2022, Wells Contemporary 2022, Wells Cathedral
June 2022, Finalist for PhD Life in Pictures, University of Reading
Solo show 2022 March - Love, Loss and (in)difference, Farnham
2022 February, Landmark 2022 show, Teddington
2022 February, Many Shades of Love, Rising Sun Arts, Reading
2021 October, Bath Open Prize, 44AD Gallery, Bath
2021 October, BLOOM installed for permanent display at Virginia Water Station, SWR
2021 September PrintIt! Aire Place Studios, Leeds
2021 August, Poppy Field, War Horse Memorial, Ascot
2021 July Short listed for HIGH PRIZE
2021 July What do we know (anyway), Sheffield
2021 June Proxy, RCA Sculpture MA Exhibition, Cromwell Place Gallery, London
2021 June Becoming Biomorphic, Scream Magazine
2021 May Reboot, The Old Red Bus Station, Leeds
2021 April, The Expanded Line, Solo show, Kaufferraum Haus Gallery
2021 April The Chaos Diaries ARTLove Magaizine
2021 March We Are Not Invisible, Philadelphia, USA
2021 March / April Prick and Stitch show , Standpoint Gallery, London
2021 March Skin www.the-mass.com and across social media platforms
2021 March / April Restriction Clayhill Arts, Somerset
2021 March POW show, Thane
2021 February Prick and Stitch Residency, Stand Point Gallery, London
201 February The Virus who came to tea - Online
2021 February Norma Rea Gallery - York University
2021 February Relay - Social Media tag show
2021 January Print It: Photography Exhibition Aire Place Studio, Leeds
2021 January Small Epiphanies, New Haus Gallery
2020 November Meadow of Purple Poppies, The War Horse Memorial, Royal Ascot
2020 November Magical Women Magazine
2020 October All shall Pass, Sheffield
2020 October Brieze Situationists Chobham
2020 October RSPB Heathlands sculpture trail, Guildford
2020 September Mushrooms in the Dark, London
2020 August - ongoing The Sculpture Park, Farnham
2020 August - Smile Earley Train Station
2020 August Body as Landscape Instagram exhibition
2020 August Accepted for New Emergence Art
2020 July Gravyzine Instagram take over and magazine feature
2020 July Situationist RCA show
2020 May Do it Yourway on-line exhibition
2020 May Psychastheina_art on-line exhibition and e-book
2020 May Under(cover) MA Fine Art Farnham on-line
2020 Selected for Valleys of Vision Sculpture, Shoreham, Kent
2020 March Dirty Hands and Revelations Residency, Stand Point Gallery, London
2020 February, Oink Gallery Show, Old Town Swindon
2020 30th January - 4th Feb Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, Kensington
Ongoing Homeward Bound - South Western Railway, Sunningdale
2020 Women, selected to feature in this book.
2019 Royal West of England Academy 167 Open exhibition - Bath
2019 Voyage - Centrespace, Bristol (October 4-9th)
2019 Eighthwonder - 44AD Gallery, Bath
2019 Tumblehome – National Trust, Dapdune Wharf, Guildford
2019 Heathlands Artwork – RSPB Farnham Heath - Acquired for their Permanent collection
2019 BA Fine Art Degree Show - UCA Farnham
2019 Fantastic and Strange - Fringe Art Bath
2019 This Woman's Work – Fringe Art Bath
2019 Pop my Mind - Hot Topics prize awarded
2019 Pint Size - Kent Galleries.
2019 Guest + Host = Ghost -Linear Gallery, UCA Farnham
2019 Hard Hats, Hi Heels and Her -Trowbridge Town Hall Arts
2018 BA FA show - The Crypt, London
2018 Dissent - Linear Gallery, UCA
2018 Visions of Science - Andrew Brownswood Gallery, Bath
2018 The Art of Nude - The Old Biscuit Factory, London
2018 Pop my Mind Innovation Award - Online
2018 Human - Espaciao Gallery, London
2018 Bath Life - Salon Art Gallery, Bath
2018 Open call prize - Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge
2018 Bath Open Art Prize - 44AD, Bath
2018 Murmuration - Fringe Art Bath
2018 Gripe - Fringe Art Bath
2018 Lexicon of Lust - Fringe Art Bath
2018 When our Lips speak -James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
Curatorial
Ongoing, Editor at Haus-a-rest Online Zine www.haus-a-rest.com // Instagram haus_a_rest
Curator at New Haus Gallery // Instagram new_haus_gallery
2022 "The Cosmos of Colour", UK Touring postcard exhibition
2021 RCA Sculpture PM for on-line and Proxy, Cromwell Place, London show
2019 Hard Hats, Hi Heels and Her - Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge
2017 Pointless Protest with Roxman Gatt, 10 Downing Street, London
2017 Kitchen Heterotopia – Hannah Peschar Sculpture Gardens
Teaching
2022 University of Reading, School of art. Material sessions.
2021 Camberwell Sculpture Year 2
2021 UCA Fine Art BA Year 1
2021 South Thames College Art Foundation
Professional Qualifications
PhD, Fine Art, University of Reading 2025
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, 2021
BA Fine Art, First, UCA, 2019
BTEC in Construction Double distinction, 2006
MBA Brunel University,1993