HESTER COX - PRINTMAKER
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Hester Cox - CV

Awards and Residencies
2025  The Chris Benefield Memorial Award at Printfest (for Hay Meadow)
2024  Selected for Ironbridge Fine Arts 2024 Printmaking Competition & Exhibition
2021  People’s Choice award at Craft Open, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
2019-2020 Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes: a funded project reprinting the wood engravings of celebrated artist, writer and
                    founder of the museum, Marie Hartley MBE, and a year spent developing prints inspired by the Yorkshire Dales exhibited
​                     at the museum in 2020.
2017   Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition
2015   Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition
2014   Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year
2012   Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year
2012   Selected by Chrysalis Arts Development for residency at Ålgården Printmaking Studio and Gallery in Sweden as part of the  
            Connections North Programme.
2010   One of three artists selected for ‘Migration’ residency at Nidderdale Museum.
2010   Extending Practice/Celebrating Place award from Chrysalis Arts Development. 
 
Public Art Commissions
2018   4-metre collagraph on cotton for a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
2017   2 large scale monotypes for a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
2017   Linocut designs for a rubber stamp trail at Kilnsey Park Trout Farm
2014   Linocut designs for geocache trail at Scampston Hall celebrating 300 years since the birth of Capability Brown
2013   Collagraph for ‘Ward 37 Refurbishment’, York Hospital
2012   Linocut designs for Geo Art Cache trail in Hackfall Woods commissioned by Chrysalis Arts.
 
Solo Exhibitions (last 14 years)    
2024   Within These Walls, The Folly, Museum of North Craven Life 
2023   Within These Walls: Hay time in the Dales, The Dales Countryside Museum
2021    Encounters: In Search of the Wild, Masham Gallery.
2020   View from the Fells: In the Footsteps of Marie Hartley, The Dales Countryside Museum
2019    Waymarks, The Folly Museum of North Craven Life
2017    Within These Walls – print installation in a field barn for Grassington Festival.
2015    The Angel Inn, Hetton. 
2011/12 Hester Cox: An Artist’s Impression (A printmaker’s response to the Vale of York Viking Hoard),The Mercer Gallery
 
Two/Three Person Exhibitions (last 11 years):
 2016-2025   Collections, an ongoing project with ceramicist Charlotte Morrison and artist Josie Beszant.
                        2025  Charms and Murmurings, Ryedale Folk Museum
                        2019   Three Peaks Arts Trail, Horton-in-Ribblesdale Station
                        2018   Sunny Bank Mills Gallery
                        2017   Ryedale Folk Museum
                        2016   Masham Gallery
2014/2015     ‘New Ground’ with Charlotte Morrison, Inspired by…
 
Selected Group Exhibitions & Events (last 10 years)
2025      Saltaire Winter Makers Fair
2025      North Yorkshire Open Studios (& 2024, 2023, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)
2025       Printfest, Ulverston, Cumbria (also 2017, 2018 & 2019)
2025       Great Print 10, Rheged, Penrith (also 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023)
2024       Ironbridge Fine Arts 2024 Printmaking Competition, Ironbridge
2024       Cry of the Curlew:  Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes
                                                  Kendal Museum, Kendal
                                                  Museum nan Eilean, Lionacleit, Benbecula
2023/22   Give Peat a Chance: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes
                                                       The Folly, Settle
                                                       Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
2022       Our Ingleborough: Various locations in North Craven District
2022 & 2021 Craft Open, The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
2020   Crafted by Hand, Masham (also 2016, 2018 & 2019)
2019     Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, Wakefield (with Printmakers Circle)
2018     Watts Contemporary Gallery, Compton, Surrey
2018     Craft Market Kendal, Cumbria
2018     West Dean Design and Craft Festival
2018     Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart (& previous 6 years)
2018     Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria
2018     The Hepworth Print Fair with Printmakers Circle
2017     New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum (and touring during 2018/19)
2017     Sheffield Print Fair
2017     Craven Arts Christmas Exhibition, Skipton
2017     Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria
2017      Art in the Pen, Thirsk Auction Mart (& 2016)
2016     Dean Clough Festive Art Fair
2016    Sheffield Print Fair
2016     West Dean Design and Craft Fair, West Dean College.
2016     Hepworth Print Fair, Hepworth Museum, Wakefield.
2015     New Light Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum.
2015     Mirror Images: 4-centre synchronised international exhibition as part of Connections North Programme:
                                        Ratamo Print and Photography Centre in Finland 
                                        Ålgården Print Workshop, West Sweden. 
                                        Highland Printmakers, Scotland
                                        10 selected independent North Yorkshire printmakers Inspired By…, England
Toured: Brewery Arts, The Dales Countryside Museum & Caithness Horizons.
 
Television:  BBC Countryfile, John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire - Yorkshire Champions aired 24th August 2025
                     BBC Countryfile, Yorkshire Dales Episode aired on 19th November 2024.

Journals:  Pressing Matters, Issue.4; Yorkshire Life; The Great Outdoors; Resurgence 2023, Seasons February 2026 (Netherlands)
 
Books:   Tracks in the Dark and Wall of Lies by Susan Parry (cover design)
               Impressed by Printmakers Circle
               Making Collagraph Prints by Suzie Mackenzie
               Beauty of the Beast, Mascot Media
               Wings Over Water, Mascot Media
               The Artful Hare, Mascot Media
               The Elegant Fowl, Mascot Media.
 
I regularly exhibit and sell my prints at various galleries and museums across the UK.
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