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SHELLEY FOX/ROSS TIBBLES
NoHAWKERS presents ‘storage unpacked’. Items from the archive of fashion designer SHELLEY FOX. Showing alongside new compositions from ROSS TIBBLES (aka False_snow).
Internationally renowned for her radical cut, conceptual rigour and sensual design, Shelley’s archive has undergone natural world interventions, producing tantalising new possibilities for future configurations. Ross’s new work reconstructs printed matter, paint and bindings to remix colour, texture and image into arcane forms.
SHELLEY FOX
An award-winning designer, Fox has created numerous experimental and innovative clothing collections that were sold internationally, and during her career as a designer Fox was awarded the Crafts Council Development Award, The Jerwood Fashion Prize, the Peugeot Design Award for Textiles, the Stanley Picker Fellowship for Design, and was nominated by the Arts Council England for the Prince Philip Design Prize. During this time her work acquired extensive press coverage in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i-D magazine, Vogue, Time Out London, Purple, Tank, Nylon, The Face, Sleaze Nation, Dazed & Confused, Self Service, Creative Week and Wire magazine amongst many others.
Fox was selected for the Business of Fashion - #BOF | The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in 2014 and 2015, the definitive professional index of people shaping the fashion industry.
Her work has been included in over 45 prestigious exhibitions across America, Australia, China, Europe, Israel, Japan, Russia and the UK, in notable venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Design Museum, Barbican Art Gallery, Crafts Council, ICA in London, Modemuseum in Antwerp, Museum at FIT in New York, International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, Tokyo Design Museum, Design Museum Holon and many touring British Council exhibitions. Her work has been published in over 30 books and 14 exhibition catalogues broadly across fashion, design, and art journals, as well as academic publications.
Fox has appeared as a speaker at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MOMI in New York, Barbican Art Gallery, ICA, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Hong Kong Design Centre and the World Cities Creative Forum in Shanghai. She has collaborated with creatives such as Tomato, SHOWstudio, Michael Clark Dance Company, Choreographer Wayne McGregor of Random Dance, English Heritage and the Medical Research Council UK.
Additionally, Fox served as the main consultant to The Vilcek Foundation in New York for both the 2015 Vilcek Prize for Fashion and the Creative Promise Prizes for Fashion. The Vilcek Prize for Fashion was awarded to curator, Andrew Bolton for his contribution to Fashion at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Shelley Fox is the Donna Karan Professor of Fashion, and the founding Director of the MFA Fashion Design and Society program at Parsons School of Design in New York from 2008 – 2021. She previously held the prestigious position of Senior Research Fellow at Central St Martins (University of the Arts, London) for 14 years from 2000-2014. Fox was invited to join the Directors Circle of the Board of the International Fashion Research Library in Oslo in 2022.
ROSS TIBBLES
Ross Tibbles is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. He has an MA in Critical Fine Art Practice from Central St Martins in London. For over two decades, he has exhibited his work at galleries and museums across Europe and America. He has had solo shows at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Alden Projects and Chashama in New York City. His work has been shown at museums and institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium, and The Rimbaud Museum, Charleville – Mezieres, France alongside art fairs including Art Basel Switzerland, Frieze London, Art Rotterdam and Art Amsterdam. His work is held in the collections of Michael Ovitz, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Wolfgang Titze and Edward Albee.
Brief Statement
My art practice exists within the parameters of Constructions, Assemblage and Drawing. I am hesitant to include the term collage for it’s too loaded and has become a refuge. Since moving to New York City from London my work has become more raw, minimal, deceptively casual in its approach, and yes in its own way more beautiful, although this beauty has always been the result of an intent. This change maybe as much to do with my age as my environment.
Over the last 2 years I have started collecting NME’s (New Musical Express) from the early/mid-eighties - it was an influential time for me when post-punk had become more reflective. These music papers are now brown and decayed and with everything else that lies on my Brooklyn studio floor as reminders of what happens.
The visual collisions that occur are the mainstay of my work. The small works displayed here on book covers are typical of my approach. I am seeking to create artifacts which whisper a reminder; an archeology of the modern.