The Box, Plymouth

🚀 ONE WEEK TO LAUNCH Here's a round up of our stellar autumn/winter line-up! ☁️ Land Sea Sky: Ingrid Pollard, JMW Turner and Vija Celmins 19 October 2024 - 12 January 2025 In partnership with ARTIST ROOMS, Tate and National Galleries of Scotland This major new exhibition that brings together three artists who, although working more than 200 years apart, are connected through their close of observation of nature and skilful use of materials. See nearly 20 works by Turner depicting waves, wind, clouds and skies, a recent body of work by Pollard that draws on two years of research into Devon’s botanical gardens and ferns, and 23 extraordinary prints and drawings of the ocean, desert and night sky by the internationally acclaimed Celmins. 🏠 Paul Rooney - Broken Token 19 October 2024 - 12 January 2025 An IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund commission in partnership with The Box A new two-screen film that explores the concept of home during a time of conflict. 'Broken Token' combines the recollections of local veterans, film footage and a melodic folk ballad inspired by a page from a Victorian folk song collector’s manuscript in The Box's archives. 🏛️ Devonport 200 19 October 2024 - 12 January 2025 A new film commission and series of co-curated displays celebrating the 200th anniversary of Plymouth Dock becoming Devonport. Continuing: Planet Ocean – until 27 April Coming soon: Osman Yousefzada: When will we be good enough? – 2 November- 9 March All free and open 10am-5pm Tuesday-Sunday!

Two weeks to go until it's all change at The Box! A season of fantastic new exhibitions and commissions gets underway from Saturday 19 October, with shows and presentations of painting, photography, printmaking, installation and film by five different artists, including the much-loved JMW Turner. Here's an insight into what we've got in store for autumn/winter 2024: https://ow.ly/c8VC50SQEFk.

We're delighted to announce that a beautiful sculputure from The Box's collection titled 'Constellation' by Dame Barbara Hepworth has been loaned to Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera in Barcelona for an exhibition called 'Art In Stone'. This is a major show that brings a range of amazing sculptors together. If you're visiting Barcelona at some point before 2 February 2025, we'd thoroughly recommend.

Four years ago today The Box opened its doors for the first time - over five months later than planned because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We've come a long way since then and there's still a lot more we hope to do - but today we're going to enjoy the day and say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. Here's to another year!

Some numbers from our summer..... ✨ We welcomed 44,736 visitors ✨ Ran drop-in holiday workshops for 3,675 people ✨ Served 7,088 hot drinks and 2,188 cakes and pastries in The Box Kitchen & Bar ✨ .....and sold 2,876 marbles in our shop It's been a great few weeks - and now we're busy getting ready for an exciting autumn with a fantastic line up of exhibitions and events. Stay tuned!

🌠 Ingrid Pollard MBE 🌠 JMW Turner 🌠 Vija Celmins 🌠 Paul Rooney 🌠 Osman Yousefzada Five different artists who explore the landscape, sea and sky and reflect on ideas of power, class and conflict.... We're busy preparing for an exciting autumn with exhibitions that combine highlights from The Box's collections with some stunning loans from Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, and new contemporary works supported by the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund and Henry Moore Foundation. It's fantastic for us to be working with such a wide range of national partners on our forthcoming season. Things really get going one month from today on Saturday 19 October and we're looking forward to sharing more with you over the coming weeks. https://ow.ly/xAg350TqNBA 📷 Selected works from 'Three Drops of Blood' by Ingrid Pollard, acquired through the Freelands Art Fund Acquisition.

Brilliant to see 'The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure' featured in this 'Time Out' roundup of amazing art exhibitions that are closing soon! If you'd like to see the show it will be on display until the end of Sunday 29 September. https://ow.ly/GWOi50TheS4

Brilliant to be featured in this 'Time Out' roundup of amazing art exhibitions that are closing soon!

Our CEO, Victoria Pomery, sat down recently with the editor of Muddy Stilettos for a chat. They talked about Plymouth, The Box, careers in the arts, free time and more. Here's the full interview! https://lnkd.in/eG7JeJ3q  

The the latest discovery from our 'Reimagining the Film Archive' programme is a fascinating 20-minute long documentary called 'Educational Film: India' which was commissioned by a Christian missionary in the 1960s. The film highlights the cultures and religions in India before the independence of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Its narrative underlines the need for us to reassess our approach to representation in the film archive. https://ow.ly/VItA50SZoaN