Out of the Box: A Celebration of Contemporary Box Art
Tom Buchanan and Sarah Lea
Tom Buchanan is a freelance designer, artist and curator based in London, UK. He studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts and his own work has evolved through a fusion of collage, print, ink, model making and photography. He has worked for numerous advertising agencies, publishers, record labels and newspapers, including Condé Nast, The Guardian, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Life, Random House, TBWA GGT, Time Out, INK publishing, Jonathan Cape, Thames & Hudson, Polydor records and New Scientist. In 2012 he was invited to participate in The Brighton Arts Festival and this inspired him to assemble a nationwide open submission to exhibit “Artworks that have evolved, been created within, or even escaped from a Box...”. This was the start of the phenomenal “Out of the Box” series of exhibitions.
Sarah Lea is an art historian and exhibitions curator. Having joined the Royal Academy in 2007, Sarah has curated several major exhibitions including Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust (2015), Dali/Duchamp (2017), Tacita Dean: Landscape (2018) and Antony Gormley (2019). She writes regularly for the RA Magazine and produces podcasts.