News Articles
Press Release - Sep 2025
Five Years On: The Box celebrates its fifth anniversary and outlines its impact
To mark The Box's fifth anniversary, we are proud to release the results of a new report which outlines the impact the venue has had since it welcomed its first visitors on 29 September 2020.
Art - Sep 2025
Collection Insight: 'Energy Locator' by Anne Hardy
We are delighted that ‘Energy Locator’ by Anne Hardy has been purchased from Maureen Paley, a well-established art gallery, by Jill Hackel and Andrzej Zarzycki who have gifted the work to the Contemporary Art Society to present to The Box.
Press Release - Sep 2025
Looking Back: The Box secures significant funding to keep rare work of art in the UK
In early 2020, The Box announced that it had raised nearly a quarter of a million pounds from five key funders to save a rare piece of 19th century studio pottery for the nation. As we get closer to our fifth anniversary on 29 September 2025, we look back at this significant addition to the art collection.
Press Release - Aug 2025
Looking Back: Figurehead flotilla is revealed
It was an exciting day at The Box on 10 March 2020, when an impressive flotilla of 19th century ship’s figureheads was unveiled for the first time.
Art - Aug 2025
Spotlight On: Salvador Dalí
There aren’t many people who haven’t heard of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). The Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer, film maker and writer turned to Surrealism in 1929 and quickly became one of its most well-known names. If you visit the 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' exhibition (until 7 September 2025) you can see a beautiful work by him that is full of symbolism.
Press Release - Aug 2025
The Box unboxes developer donation
A Plymouth-based developer has donated £2,000 to The Box Foundation. Persimmon Homes Cornwall & West Devon handed over the cheque earlier this month as part of its Community Champions scheme, with Plymouth City Council’s leader, Cllr Tudor Evans, in attendance.
Art - Aug 2025
Bringing the light: Light Boxes by Jyll Bradley
One of the things you notice when you look around the ‘Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning’ exhibition is the number of light boxes that are on display in different areas of the show. Light as a material and a metaphor is something that runs through all of Bradley’s work – whether it’s through bringing light to a story, exploring the light we need to grow things, or using light in a completely different way.
Art - Aug 2025
Spotlight On: Jean Arp
Jean Arp (1886-1966) was a German-French artist renowned for his contributions to modern art through sculpture, painting, poetry and collage. Born Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp in Strasbourg, then part of Germany, he became known as Jean Arp after moving to France. Discover more about him and the three sculptures he created during the 1960s and 1970s that are on display in our major ‘Forbidden Territories’ exhibition.
Press Release - Jul 2025
Looking Back: A new window for St Luke's
The Box selected Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes (b. 1972) to create a new east window for St Luke’s Church in 2019 after she represented her country at the prestigious Venice Biennale. Her commission took us on a journey that connected contemporary art, European craftsmanship, a 17th century female scientist/artist, and our historically important Cottonian Collection.
News - Jul 2025
How it started v How it's going - Part Three
We're back with a third post where we're casting our minds back to 2019-2020 when The Box was being developed. This time we're looking at St Luke's church, which underwent a huge transformation inside and outside to become the beautiful gallery space it is today.
News - Jul 2025
A celebration of creativity and community
‘Hello Sailor’ took place at Tinside Lido on Saturday 5 July 2025 and it was such a great event to witness! Deputy Leader, Councillor Jemima Laing gives her report on the outdoor event of the summer.
Press Release - Jun 2025
Looking Back: A mammoth moment
It was a ‘huge’ moment for The Box back in February 2020 as our fully assembled woolly mammoth was revealed for the first time.