Early Life and Education
Cox was born in Harringay, London, England and arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1967, when his family emigrated. He studied painting at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1978 to 1980. In 1983 he was awarded the Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship and subsequently spent eighteen months making work in London and Cairo. The same year he was awarded an Australia Council grant to spend three months making work at the Villa Ghedini, in Besozzo, Northern Italy. Also in 1983, he was included in the important survey of Australian art, Perspecta, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Cox is currently completing a PhD in Art History at Monash University on the suppression of homoeroticism in western art since the Renaissance and the ways in which artists have managed to circumvent this censure.
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