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Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024
Spotlight on Megan Roberts
Megan Roberts, or Meg, is a participatory filmmaker who helps communities tell their stories on their own terms. She passionately believes that bringing people together through civic joy can make communities stronger. Meg is also the second recipient of the Emerging Artist Commission as part of the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme.
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024
Spotlight on Arun Sood
Arun Sood is a Scottish-Indian writer, musician, academic, and intermedia artist whose diverse work captivates audiences across multiple forms. The Box is thrilled to be working with him on an emerging artist commission. Arun's focus will be on Power and Class, highlighting its impact on the south west.
Learning - Dec 2024
DesignLab Nation – creating a legacy for Devon and Cornwall’s future designers
Since 2021, The Box has been taking part in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) national schools programme DesignLab Nation which inspires secondary school students to become the next generation of designers, makers and innovators.
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024
Spotlight on Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali is a decolonial anthropologist and researcher whose work is transforming how we understand visual history and its effect in present day thinking. Based in Devonport, he is a passionate advocate for using the power of film to reshape narratives around race, identity and history. He also works as an ambassador for the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth.
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Dec 2024
Spotlight on Claire Kayes
Claire Kayes is an early career researcher with a unique academic and professional background in art and inclusive education. Combined with her dynamic, evolving practice, this makes her an invaluable asset to The Box's research initiatives. Claire brings a fresh perspective on how language shapes inclusion - and exclusion - within the cultural sector.
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Nov 2024
Spotlight on Libby Bove
Libby Bove is an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in archival methodologies, folklore, and documentary storytelling. She has been awarded a digital commission for the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme that will draw on the rich traditions of folklore, mythology, and archival research. The final piece will be showcased in the Media Lab Gallery in March 2025, alongside the 'John Lyons: Carnivalesque' exhibition.
Reimagining the Film Archive; Spotlight - Nov 2024
Spotlight on Tyler Mellins
Tyler Mellins is an artist whose work often revolves around the themes of loss, memory, and time. He has been awarded a digital commission for the Reimagining the Film Archive (RtFA) programme that will explore the theme of Surrealism. His work will be showcased in the Media Lab Gallery in parallel to the 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' exhibition in March 2025.
Reimagining the Film Archive: Milestones - Nov 2024
Four new digital artist commissions for 2025 are announced
Four exciting new digital commissions will explore diverse creative avenues and push the boundaries of the moving image for The Box throughout 2025.
Reimagining the Film Archive: Milestones - Nov 2024
2025 research commissions will explore language in the film archive
The second year of our research commission will focus on the important theme of language, and we’ve appointed local researchers Tariq Ali and Claire Kayes to work with us as we continue our journey towards decolonising The Box’s moving image collection.
Press Release - Nov 2024
Our 2025 exhibition programme is revealed
Major shows by significant UK-based artists, national and international collaborations and community engagement mark The Box’s fifth anniversary year and celebrate the power of art.
Art - Nov 2024
Frank Auerbach (1931–2024)
Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, passed away yesterday (12 November 2024) at the age of 93. This 1983 drawing by him was gifted to The Box's art collection by the Contemporary Art Society in 1989.