CYBELE COX

Cybele Cox’s practice explores representations of women in the Western art canon, through motifs drawn from ancient feminine symbols and occult mysticism. Using hand built ceramic totems and figures, painting, drawing and more recently costume, Cox hybridises the human and animal world, fusing symbols from the mythic world with fantasies of a future utopian new world exclusively run by women leaders and Indigenous groups. In doing so, she reconstructs a new belief system from remnants of old ones, discarding the broken, hegemonic narratives and elevating those which were previously underestimated or hidden. For Cox, her works function as a means of entry into imagining a new version of events. They invite viewers to unstick and unstack themselves, and rebuild piece by piece, toward a call for a re-flowering of the spiritual, and ultimately, a new feminist order.