Nick Fox is a Royal Academy graduate, was a Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize Winner in 2007 and had a solo exhibition at the Centre for Recent Drawing in 2009. Fox’s fascination with subversive narratives of desire is expressed across domestic objects of personal nostalgic importance. His imagery is culled from contemporary pornography, Victorian flower painting, the Romantic and Vanitas painting traditions. Fox draws, cuts and paints this subject matter into personal, intricate and pictorial systems and codes which introduce a sense of concealment. Such secrecy creates tension not just aesthetically but also sexually, suggesting senses of longing, disappointment, beauty and corruption.