HESTER COX - PRINTMAKER
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Hester Cox - CV

Awards and Residencies
  • 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 followed by a year spent developing prints inspired by the Yorkshire Dales to be 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 for an artist’s residency at Ålgården Printmaking Studio and Gallery in West Sweden as part of the Connections North Programme.
  • 2010   Selected as one of three artists in residence at Nidderdale Museum.
  • 2010   Selected for an Extending Practice/Celebrating Place award from Chrysalis Arts. This enabled me to work with Jane Sellars, the curator of the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, and specialists at the British and Yorkshire Museums.  I created a series of prints based on the Vale of York Viking Hoard. My artistic response to this beautiful and important treasure was exhibited alongside the hoard at the Mercer Art Gallery.

Recent Commissions:
  • 2018   4-metre collagraph on fabric for display at a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
  • 2017   2 large scale monotypes for display at a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
  • 2017/18   Linocut designs for a rubber stamp trail on the nature trail at Kilnsey Park Trout Farm
  • 2014   Linocut designs for geocache trail at Scampston Hall celebrating 300 years since the birth of Capability Brown
  • 2012   Linocut designs for a Geo Art Cache trail commissioned by Chrysalis Arts for Hackfall Woods, North Yorkshire.


Solo Exhibitions
  • 2020   'View From the Fells: in the footsteps of Marie Hartley' The Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes
  • 2019    'Waymarks: A Printmakers Perspective of the Dales', The Folly Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, North Yorkshire.
  • 2017    ‘Within These Walls’ –  a large-scale print installation in a field barn for Grassington Festival.
  • 2015    The Angel Inn, Hetton.
  • 2013    ‘Artist of the Month’, Alverton Gallery, Penzance
  • 2011/12 ‘Hester Cox: An Artist’s Impression (A printmaker’s response to the Vale of York Viking 
                         Hoard)’, The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
  • 2010    ‘Home’, The Gallery, Masham
  • 2009    Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge.
  • 2008    The Warehouse Café, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
  • 2007    ‘Past and Present’, The Old Courthouse, Rural Arts, Thirsk.
  • 2007    Shine, Gillygate, York.
  • 2006    ‘Journeys’, The Gallery, Masham. A solo exhibition of new prints influenced by my travels  
                         across Asia and South and Central America.
  • 1996 – 1999 RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Harrogate, annual solo exhibitions of prints and paintings.
 
Two/Three Man Exhibitions:
  • 2016-19     ‘Collections’, an ongoing project with ceramicist Charlotte Morrison and artist Josie Beszant.
                             2019    Three Peaks Arts Trail, Horton Station, Horton-in-Ribblesdale
                             2018    Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley

                             2017     Ryedale Folk Museum.
                             2016     Masham Gallery
  • 2014/2015  ‘New Ground’, Inspired by…, Danby, North York Moors, 22nd November 2014 – 25th January    
                               2015 with Charlotte Morrison.
 
Recent Selected Group Exhibitions & Events
  • 2020               Crafted by Hand, Masham (also 2016, 2018 & 2019)
  • 2019               The Great Print Exhibition, Rheged, Penrith (& 2017 & 2018)
  • 2019               Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, Wakefield (with Printmakers Circle)
  • 2019               Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria (and 2017 & 2018)
  • 2017               New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum (and touring during 2018/19)
  • 2017               Sheffield Print Fair
  • 2017               Craven Arts Christmas Exhibition, Skipton​
  • 2017               Art in the Pen, Thirsk Auction Mart (& 2016)
  • 2017               Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart (& previous 5 years)
  • 2017               North Yorkshire Open Studios (& 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)
  • 2016               Dean Clough Festive Art Fair
  • 2016               Sheffield Print Fair
  • 2016               Crafted by Hand, Masham
  • 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’: selected international touring exhibition. Started at Inspired By…, Danby on 8th May – 15th June
                                   with synchronised openings at Ratamo Print and Photography Centre and Algarden, West Sweden. The exhibition
                                  toured to Brewery Arts, Kendal; The Dales Museum, Hawes & Caithness Horizons, Thurso.
  • 2015               The Harrogate Open, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
  • 2015               Printmakers at Pannet, Pannet Art Gallery, Whitby, a group show with printmakers from Leeds Fine Artists. 18th  
​                                  August – 26th September.
  • 2014 & 2012 ‘Flourish Print Award’, West Yorkshire Printmakers, Mirfield
  • 2014               Printfest Trail Exhibition, Natterjacks, Ulverston
  • 2009 – 2014 ‘Great North Art Show’, Ripon Cathedral.
Plus many more from 2004 – present.
 
I regularly exhibit and sell my prints at various galleries and museums across the UK and in Sweden.
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