Dean Fox, The Games Room, 2025, Oil on canvas, 196 x 260 cm (77 1/8 x 102 3/8 in)
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Dean Fox, The Games Room, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 196 x 260 cm (77 1/8 x 102 3/8 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, The Dyadic Rule - Three's a Crowd, 2025, Oil on canvas, 254 x 181 cm (100 x 71 1/4 in)
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Dean Fox, The Dyadic Rule - Three's a Crowd, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 254 x 181 cm (100 x 71 1/4 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Avoiding Mary, 2025, Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Avoiding Mary, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf I, 2025, Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf I, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Sitting II, 2025, Oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm (78 3/4 x 63 in)
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Dean Fox, Sitting II, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm (78 3/4 x 63 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Three Sisters, 2026, Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (59 x 43 1/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Three Sisters, 2026 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (59 x 43 1/4 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
Photo: @showpickle
Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf II, 2025, Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm (51 1/8 x 39 3/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf II, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm (51 1/8 x 39 3/8 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Sitting, 2025, Oil on canvas, 100 x 67 cm (39 3/8 x 26 3/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Sitting, 2025 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 100 x 67 cm (39 3/8 x 26 3/8 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Old Lady, 2025, Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Dean Fox, Old Lady, 2025 (Detail), Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Dean Fox, Hidden form I, 2025, Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Dean Fox, Hidden form I, 2025 (Detail), Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Hidden form II, 2025, Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Dean Fox, Hidden form II, 2025 (Detail), Oil on panel, 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in)
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Dean Fox, Sketch II, 2025, Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
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Dean Fox, Sketch II, 2025 (Detail), Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
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Dean Fox, Sketch III, 2025, Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
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Dean Fox, Sketch III, 2025 (Detail), Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
Photo: @showpickle
Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, installation view, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK
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Dean Fox, Sketch I, 2025, Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
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Dean Fox, Sketch I, 2025 (Detail), Vine charcoal on paper, Framed: 64 x 48 cm (25 1/4 x 18 7/8 in) Unframed: 57 x 42 cm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
Photo: @showpickle
Matt Carey-Williams is delghted to present Scene XVI: Dean Fox, Keeping the Books on the Shelf, the artist’s second solo presentation at his space at 12 Porchester Place, London, UK.
Extending to a second space in Connaught Village, this latest body of work, sees the artist continue his treatment of art history not as a source to be quoted but as a system to be tested. Drawing on a range of references - from Impressionism to Symbolism to Fauvism - Fox works in a volatile space where image and surface compete; where figures, interiors, and ornament are held in provisional balance before dissolving into folds of pure abstraction.
Across fourteen new works, colour thickens, spatial cues compress, and the artist’s marks interrupt and redirect inherited pictorial languages. The paintings resist reverence, instead maintaining a state of tension in which order is sustained only long enough to be reconfigured. What results is a body of work that privileges sensation, memory, and subjective experience over description, allowing Fox’s painting to detach from its sources and assert its (and his) own terms.