Art Tour
Curator-Led Tour: Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
23 May 2025
The Box, Plymouth
Plymouth, United Kingdom
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Nicolas Party, Landscape, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Webster Hamilton Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: Adam Reich.
Exhibition
coming soon
Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
24 May 2025 – 7 Sep 2025
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Tavistock Place
- Plymouth
England - PL4 8AX
- United Kingdom
Event map
Surrealism was one of the most influential artistic, intellectual and literary movements of the 20th century, and continues to inspire artists working today. This major exhibition marks 100 years since its origins in 1924 when poet and critic André Breton first published the ‘Surrealist Manifesto’.
About
Forbidden Territories, which is organised by The Hepworth Wakefield, will take you on a journey through imagined universes, dreamlike scenes and bizarre features, looking at how Surreal ideas can turn landscape into a metaphor for the unconscious, fuse the bodily with the botanical, and provide a means to express political anxieties, gender constraints and freedoms.
It brings together an array of British and international artists including members of Breton’s original 1920s circle such as Salvador Dalí, Eileen Agar, Lee Miller and Max Ernst, later Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington, Edith Rimmington and Desmond Morris, and modern and contemporary artists like Ithell Colquhoun, Wael Shawky who recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and Cornwall-based Ro Robertson.
Come and experience a ‘Summer of Surrealism’ at The Box: taking a fantastical journey through this amazing exhibition, plus our associated programme of events, family workshops and 'Surreal Estates' - the end result of our 2025 Children and Young People’s Art Competition.
