News, updates & blogs from the black box.

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...

The Black Box has been delighted to partner with Belfast Harbour this year for it’s Creating Connections for Older People project, which uses arts and creativity to reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness in older people living with dementia and...

Back to Creating Connections last artistic experimentation: a 4-weeks workshop led by Artists’ Moving Image Northern Ireland.   To be completely honest with you, even though I really enjoy exhibitions of all kind, I didn’t use to be fond of...