News, updates & blogs from the black box.

  We are looking for volunteers! Are you interested in meeting people, having fun, building experience and skills, and making a difference to others? We are looking for volunteers to join our award-winning team to support Black Moon Disco. Black...

What’s your background? I have no formal art background to speak of. I did a Business Studies degree and working in the Construction industry in a Marketing capacity for many years. My interest outside of that was rugby but a...

Working with the Board of Directors and an established venue team, the Director will be responsible for leading the Black Box organisation with vision, delivering artistic excellence, organisational strategy, business development, funding partnerships and financial planning on local and international...

After nine years, it is with great sadness that we will be wishing our inspirationally dedicated director Rachael a fond farewell when she moves on to pastures new in September. Rachael has had an instrumental impact since joining, with The...

We are MMXX, a collaboration between Francesca Vendramin (ceramicist, @fvceramics) & Stephen Dow (printmaker, @heraldblack). Francesca, from Italy, trained at Central Saint Martins (BA Hons) while Stephen is from Ireland and graduated from The Belfast School of Art. We started...

The Black Box is looking for artists for our monthly exhibitions in The Green Room! Each month we feature a different artist through an in-person exhibition, as well as online through our website, blog, and social media platforms. The callout...

Lenka Davidikova is a Slovakian artist, painter and drawer, born in 1980 in the small city of Dolny Kubin, which was then part of former Czechoslovakia. She moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006, and in 2012 she graduated in...

Hi, I’m Alana Barton (@alanabartonart), a painter from the North coast of Ireland. I studied Fine art at the University of Ulster and graduated in 2016. I’m based at Vault Studios in East Belfast. My paintings explore childhood and family relationships...

I’m Hattie Godfrey ( @hattiegodfrey ) and I’m a London born, Belfast based artist, writer and researcher. I studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London before completing an MSc in Psychological Science at Queen’s. I hold a studio within the @flaxartstudios Emerging Artist Programme,...