- Venue
- One Church Street Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, September 17, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, October 8, 2011
- Address
- 1, Church Street Great Missenden Buckinghamshire HP16 0AX Tel. 01494 863344 E. [email protected]
- Location
- South East England
Art in a Box presents a collection of the best entries from a nationwide open submission, for which artists were invited to make works not merely in a box, but under, over, around, about or from boxes. We all have experience of boxes. We inhabit them, we are put in one when we die, we use them as drawers, chests, wardrobes, cupboards, filing cabinets, and gift wrapping. We rationalise our lives with them, tidying, containing, confining, hiding, categorising, storing, displaying and protecting the objects that surround us. Boxes speak of opening and closing, revealing and concealing, of surprises and disappointments, of treasures and collections, and of intimate spaces. Because the box touches every aspect of our lives it is a favourite subject for artists and in Art in a Box they are free to take the concept of the box in myriad directions – deconstructing and re-assembling both the object and its many connotations in diverse media.
