Biography
Artist and filmmaker David Fox was born in Dublin and spent his childhood in Killarney. He studied painting in Colchester and Bristol, and postgraduate painting at the Slade. He began making political art with The Poster-Film Collective in London and gave up painting for the next ten years . Later he was a founder member of Faction Films.
He has directed and edited many documentaries for television including for RTÉ, Arte, BBC & Channel 4. He returned to live in Ireland in 2004.
Film
2018/19 - Spears From All Sides - Editor , 70 years ago oil was discovered in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. The Waorani people resist the destruction of their culture and their land.
2016/17 - In the Name of Peace - Editor ; John Hume in America, feature documentary dir. Maurice Fitzpatrick. Irish Film Board and RTÉ.
2015 - Finney’s Ghost -Writer/Director. Feature film starring Eleanor Barr.
A beautiful story … with the feeling of an Iain Sinclair novel mixed with Victorian ghost story writer J. Sheridan le Fanu, the film is profoundly touching.
National Arts Festival South Africa.
The Guardian ★★★★★
This moving film is given an extra poignancy by the current lockdown, deaths, and uncertainty around our lives ... A mysterious well-crafted ghost story.
Pocketsize Theatre Review ★★★★★
2006 - Stars of the Sea - Producer/Director. Four part documentary – ecology and the people of the Dingle Peninsula for RTÉ.
2005. Blacksheep: The Sons of O’Connor-Scarteen - Producer/Director. The Siege of Kenmare. RTÉ.
1997 - Hard Drive for Channel4 - Co-Director/ Editor - An extraordinary road movie! Brilliant images[and] wonderful characters... HARD DRIVE is a primer to grass roots politics on the Net and life in the computer industry in general. The Guardian
Exhibitions
1995/96. Distant Relations with Irish and Mexican artists at The Carillo Gil Gallery of Modern Art, Mexico City, Santa Monica Museum of Art California, IMMA Dublin, Camden Arts Centre, London 1996.
Group show 181 Gallery, Hammersmith.
1996. Artists residency at IMMA, Dublin.
1991, Arts Council of GB photography award. WAR & ART, Impressions Gallery, York.
1990 The Cost of the English Landscape. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Brewery Gallery, Kendle, Cumbria. IKON Gallery Birmingham. Cockpit Gallery, London.
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