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Eighty-something is a new book from artists Sue Gill and John Fox MBE, two 80 year olds, whose lifelong creative partnership has been spent seeking a role for art that weaves it into the fabric of our lives. Illustrated with drawings by John Fox.
A broad perspective which covers location, health, hands-on work, gifts, religion, celebration and ceremony, with acknowledged influences and examples of the Fox Family aged 9 - 84, working together from time to time as musicians, inventors, visual and sound artists and performers.
Framing significant episodes rooted in memory, part polemic, part visionary, part wake-up call in later life, it is an idiosyncratic collection of personal values, anecdotes, sorrows and surprises. Derived from well-worn experience, it offers a glimpse of homegrown wisdom and creativity.
"As full of love and art as you'd expect from the people who founded Welfare State International in the 1960's" François Matarasso
John Fox
John Fox received a BA from the City College of New York and a PhD from the University of Michigan, both in Sociology. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he was previously the Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics. Prior to coming to McMaster, he was Professor of Sociology, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and Coordinator of the Statistical Consulting Service at York University in Toronto. Professor Fox is the author of many articles and books on applied statistics, including \emph{Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition} (Sage, 2016). He is an elected member of the R Foundation, an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Software, a prior editor of R News and its successor the R Journal, and a prior editor of the Sage Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences monograph series.
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