Cybele Cox’s art is an enquiry into representations of women that is part of a larger research-project, which seeks to re-invoke occult practices of an imagined ancient past. She makes the proposition that magic and ritual have been dismissed by the secular nature of Western society, which overlooks the importance of the spiritual realm and altered mental states. These large symbolic totems playfully evoke the rituals of paganism. The style comes out of a drawing practice, inspired by Greek mythology, Baroque architecture and ornamental design, with depictions of unconscious imagery. Her work proposes a return to occult, as a reflowering of the spiritual.
She is an interdisciplinary artist, working across sculptural media and installation as well as painting and drawing. In the last few years her practice has centred largely on hand-built ceramics, using the coil method.
Cox undertook this year an exchange at The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited at the annual Rundgang and later at Aa Collections in Vienna. She has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne and 2018 will be her first major show at a Regional Gallery in Lismore. Cybele Cox is graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramic Sculpture from Sydney College of The Arts later this year.
