Biography

James Fox is a Cambridge art historian, writer, curator and multi-award-winning, BAFTA-nominated broadcaster.

 

James fell in love with art at the age of eight and hasn't looked back since. The first person in his family to go to university, he graduated with a starred first in History of Art at the University of Cambridge in 2004.

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After completing an MPhil and PhD in the subject, as well as stints at Harvard and Yale, James took up a Fellowship in Cambridge in 2011. He specialises in modern art, British art and craft, and the cultural history of colour.

 

He is currently Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Creative Director of the Hugo Burge Foundation and Director of Education at the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park in Canada. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Arts University Plymouth and President of the Friends of the Stanley Spencer Gallery.

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Convinced of art's huge social importance, James works with museums, schools, businesses, charities and the media to engage broader audiences in this most life-enhancing of subjects.

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