”There is no line between the ‘real world’ and the world of myth and symbol”

William Burroughs

Neal Fox is an artist living on a Greek island.

 Fox makes pictures which bring together a cosmology of cultural ghosts in a psychedelic dreamscape that crosses time and space. Growing up in London, Fox began to make drawings of his deceased grandfather, a writer and bomber pilot, interacting with an ever expanding cast of characters from Francis Bacon to Jack Kerouac. In his latest exhibition Drunken Butterfly,  William Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Serge Gainsbourg, David Bowie and many more form a crew of misfits who board a ship from a decadent city and sail across the high seas to a mysterious island.  Once there they share the stage with figures of ancient mythology… Isis, Poseidon, Dionysus, Eros, Thanatos,  Persephone, the femme fatale Circe, the butterfly winged goddess Psyche… Bowie becomes Orpheus.

Fox says “living in a mountain village on this island you can really feel the mythology in the landscape…I was reading about the Greek myths and the Eleusinian mysteries. I realised what I’ve been doing over the years is creating a kind of afterlife for all these people and my grandad…  he’s still there in a lot of the pictures wearing a black coat and hat. People would travel from all over Greece to Eleusis for 2000 years to drink a potion that gave them a life changing vision of the afterlife.”

While studying under Professor Andrzej Klimowski at the Royal College of Art in London, Fox co- founded Le Gun, the art collective with a publication of the same name, who have exhibited worldwide from Brussels to Beijing.

Fox has made drawings for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The New Statesman, Dazed and Confused, Libération, Bloomberg Business Week, Der Spiegel, the BBC and Paul Smith,  and book covers for Penguin, Random House and Gallimard.

NEAL FOX BIO

EDUCATION

2005 — MA Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London
2003 — Camberwell College of Art, BA Graphic Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Drunken Butterfly, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (Cat.)

2017

Angels With Dirty Faces, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (Cat.)

2016

Neal Fox Zeichnungen, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

2015

Lust for Life, Egbert Baque Contemporary, Berlin

2014

Smell the Roses on the Way Along, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2013

Saturnalia, Daniel Blau Ltd, London

2012

Journey to the End of the Night, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

Sangre de los Pervertidos, The French House, London

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin

2011

BEWARE OF THE GOD, Daniel Blau Ltd., London

2009

2000 Light Years From Home, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich (cat.)

2008

Little Drop of Poison, LOFT 19, Paris (cat.)

2007

The Invisible Republic, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

2006

The Aubergine Tongue, the French House, London (cat.)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2022

Drawing Now, Paris, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Kunst and the Clown and Friends, Gallery 46, London

Art:Badgastein, Austria, With Anna Jill Lupertz Gallery

2021

(RE)Generation, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich

2020

Schwartx Weiss, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

2019

Draw, The Saatchi Gallery, London, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2018

Espace 37 , Brussels, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Vers de Novelles aventures! Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2017

Drawing Now, Paris, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Art Cologne, with Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

2016

Art Cologne, With Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

Power Flower, Magic Beans Gallery, Berlin

2015

Gib Mir das Sommerloch, Anna Jill Lupertz Gallery, Berlin

The Rakish Baal Resurrected — A Tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Egbert Baque Contemporary, Berlin

A Rock n Roll Cathedral, Egbert Baque Contemporary, Berlin

Tales from the Void, Shakespeare and Company, Paris

Drawing Now, Galerie Marie-Laure Fleisch, Paris

2014

There’s a Bluebird in my Heart, Egbert Baque Contemporary, Berlin

Club des Cornichons, Cafe de Flore, Paris

Abracadabra, Egbert Baque Contemporary, Berlin

The Harlot and the Rake, Black’s members club, London

Drawing Now, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

Artissima, Galerie Marie-Laure Fleisch, Turin

Iconic/Ironic, Galerie Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome

2013

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen

Memory Palace, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Space is Deep, Daniel Blau Ltd, London

2012

Day of the Dead Festival at The Old Vic Tunnels, London

Christie’s Young Collectors, The Museum of Mankind, London

Unfair, By The Pricking of my Thumbs, Lebenson Gallery, Paris

Bare Bones: Damrak & Ruin, Sid Lee, Amsterdam

2011

Never Mind The Bosporus: Guns, Bones & Heretics, Dükkan, Istanbul

Close Eyes To Exit, Red Gallery, London

Ghosts of Gone Birds, A Foundation, London

Bang! Bang!, ARRTCO Collection, Beijing

La Catastrophe: LE GUN & The Black Squid, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

Le Gun and The Unknown Room, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin

Le Paris Bar à Paris, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2010

Art Brussels, Le Gun, Brussels

LE GUN for beginners, Material, London

LE GUN + Den Svenska Befolkningen I MAGEN PÅ ETT DJUR, Barnens underjordiska scen, Stockholm,

LE GUN, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

LE GUN and friends, Gallery Fake, Tokyo

LE BUM, +ing, Tokyo

Bare Bones 3, NEU Gallery, London

Pulp, The Horse Hospital, London

2009

Bare Bones 2, NEU Gallery, London

Bare Bones 1, Dazed and Confused Gallery, Shoreditch, London

Art Basel, Galerie Daniel Blau, Basel

Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2008

LE GUN The Family, Rochelle school, A Foundation , London

Art Basel, Galerie Sabine Knust

Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2007

L.H Brown’s Shoe Shop of Curiosities, London

2006

International Festival LE GUN, Nog Gallery, London

Planet LE GUN, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK

2005

Graduation Show, Royal College of Art, London