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Tim Foxen
Tim Foxon trained in fine art and had a long career within art and design education, while maintaining a creative practice throughout.
He completed an MA in the history of art. In recent years Tim undertook print courses at Morley College, and this opened-up new avenues for exploration which led him to join HAUSPRINT in 2024.
Turning the Wheel
Tim Foxen’s practice focused on an allusive, abstracted visual language using traditional materials and techniques. Academically trained, he has eschewed realism and the figure, instead evoking and hinting at lived experience and wider ideas through fragments and new ‘constructed’ compositions. The work originates in observation, memory, and art historical reference, which through an extended experimental […]
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