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Trans-form – Trevor Bell

Trans-Form presents a selection of major works spanning the last three decades of award-winning artist Trevor Bell’s career, including the most recent paintings and favoured works from the artist’s personal archive.

Along with other significant artists who were working in St Ives in the 1950s, Trevor Bell (1930-2017), helped establish British art on the international stage. He also spent 20 years living and working in America and showed work on both sides of the Atlantic.

Trans-Form is the last exhibition supervised by Trevor Bell who passed away in November 2017. Recently...

Foundation stone laid at The Box in Plymouth

The team behind the development of Plymouth’s exciting new cultural and heritage attraction has celebrated another milestone for the project today.

The foundation stone for The Box, Plymouth was laid in a special ceremony attended by representatives from Plymouth City Council, construction firm Willmott Dixon and other key partners and stakeholders.

The stone was unveiled by...

The Box takes flight: Plymouth Cabinet of Curiosities explodes into being

Following the announcement of the new name for Plymouth’s pioneering £37 million cultural centre, shoppers in Plymouth’s city centre on Saturday witnessed an unexpected piece of global contemporary dance, street theatre and music, which heralded in the brand for the new ‘museum of the future’: The Box, Plymouth.

From 11.45am, unsuspecting passers-by witnessed curious ‘choruses’ of...

Bite size talk: Fake Future Present with Jilly Payne

Join Jilly Payne, Archive Film Programmer at The Box, for a talk that explores the use of its collections in the two Film Commissions that were created in 2018 based on the theme of Revolutions.

Jilly’s talk will look at how the 2018 visual artists used the archive to explore their understanding of a constantly changing technological world and the role that artificial intelligence plays.

Part of The Unknown Knowns exhibition programme

Free admission, booking is essential

www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/bite-size-talk-fake-future-present-with-jill...

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