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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...

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...