ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Dylan Fox is a queer trans artist working across expanded print, publishing, installation, participation and artist-led infrastructure.
Using familiar public forms including newspapers, guidebooks, signage, workshops, archives and artist-run spaces, his work explores how people are read, misread, included, delayed, believed or made visible through systems of language, information and access.
Working across print, moving image, participation and social space, Fox treats print not only as ink on paper, but as a wider system through which experiences, knowledge and power circulate.
He is particularly interested in reading as a social activity: how people interpret spaces, systems, atmospheres, behaviours and one another through everyday public life. Recent work explores public reading systems, collective interpretation and publishing as a form of social infrastructure.
Emerging from lived experiences of healthcare systems, institutional navigation, grief and public visibility, his practice examines how complex experiences become socially legible through participation, circulation and collective forms of reading.
Fox is the founder of Silly Gooze Editions, an artist-run Risograph studio, publishing structure and ongoing social artwork
SELECTED PROJECTS
PUBLIC READING SYSTEMS
Reading Room
2018
A temporary shared reading space bringing together LGBTQ+ history, annotation and public access through books, notes and printed matter.
Reader Boards
Ongoing series
Public text works borrowing the visual language of roadside signage, cinema marquees and advertising systems.
Stop The Press
2018
A distributed newspaper and poster project exploring misinformation, public publishing and media circulation through the visual language of commuter newspapers and advertising billboards.
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE / RITUALS OF TOURISM
2018
A distributed participatory artwork spanning guidebooks, maps, public walks and temporary encounters across the town of Watchet using the visual language of tourism and public information systems.
PARTICIPATION, WAITING & SOCIAL SPACE
Candyfloss
Ongoing
Participatory waiting systems built from the visual language of fairgrounds, clinics and public services.
Safety Card
2017
A multisensory work adapting the visual language of airline emergency procedures through screen-print, instructional graphics and directional sound.
MEMORY, ARCHIVE & TRANSMISSION
Continuum
Ongoing series
An ongoing series combining fragmented quotes, childhood photographs and printed text exploring memory, contradiction and the lingering effects of language over time.
SILLY GOOZE AS PRACTICE INFRASTRUCTURE
Founded in 2023, Silly Gooze Editions is an artist-facilitated Risograph studio, publishing structure and ongoing social artwork based in Northamptonshire.
Operating simultaneously as a public studio, collaborative publishing structure and ongoing artwork, Silly Gooze explores how print can function as social infrastructure: creating spaces for participation, exchange, learning and collective production through workshops, artist books, exhibitions and independent publishing.
Grounded in the belief that “anything can be print”, the project approaches publishing as a shared public activity rather than a closed professional system.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS / RESEARCH
expanded field of print and public reading systems / artist publishing and circulation / social infrastructure and participatory structures / maritime communication and navigational language / archives, transmission and memory / porous materials and ecological paper systems / collaborative publishing and public access / institutional language, waiting systems and legibility / artist-facilitated culture and democratic production
SELECTED CV
EDUCATION
2012–2016
BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class
The University of Northampton, UK.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2016–2017
Print Fellow, University of Northampton, UK.
2016
Best In Show, Free Range, London, UK.
ARTIST-FACILITATED PROJECTS & PUBLISHING
2023–Present
Founder and Director, Silly Gooze Editions Ltd., Northamptonshire, UK.
Artist-led Risograph studio, publishing project and expanded print practice working across artist books, public programmes, workshops and independent publishing.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
The Elephant Room with Dylan Fox, Big Shop Friday, Milton Keynes, UK.
2018
A Manipulation of Terms, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK.
2018
Rituals of Tourism, Contains Art, Somerset, UK.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK.
2021
Wysing Broadcasts, online.
2019
The Twin, Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK.
2018
In Another Place, CVAN East Midlands, Northampton, UK.
SELECTED PROJECTS & PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
2023–2024
C2C Artist in Residence, Sol Haven and The Hope Centre, Northamptonshire, UK.
2023
Replicating The Model of A Village — Studio Voltaire and Goldsmiths University, London, UK.
2022
New Histories — Wysing Arts Centre and The Kite Trust, Cambridgeshire, UK.
2022
AMPLIFY Residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK.
2021
Peterborough Pride — co-produced banners with LGBTQIA+ youth groups, METAL, Peterborough, UK.
TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2022
Sensing Place Design & Research Symposium, NN Contemporary, Northampton, UK.
2019
Arts and Heritage Day, Coventry Biennial, Coventry, UK.