Saturday 18 April 2026
ROOTS: The Burton Box of Treasure
With Paschale Straiton of Red Herring
10am-4pm | FREE
Burton 2101
To celebrate our 75th anniversary, we are looking ahead at what the next 75 years might look like for The Burton, taking us to the year 2101. To inform a long-term strategy for our work, we are organising four artist-led events inviting you to join the conversation and share your ideas on our past, present and future.
ROOTS: The Burton Box of Treasure
with Paschale Straiton of Red Herring.
We are kicking off our 75th Anniversary with a celebration of The Burton’s Treasure – the valuable and delightful things that we prize the most from the gallery and museum.
Performance artist Paschale Straiton will be leading an investigation into the pressing questions that reveal the roots of The Burton’s work – what is the oldest object to be found in the collection? Which artwork shown in the gallery has come with the highest insurance premium? What tools could our curators not do without and why?
We’d love to know what you cherish about The Burton, whether that be a physical object or a memory, and the questions that you have. The Burton Box of Treasure is open for one day only, so come down and get hands on!
About Paschale
Paschale Straiton is a Northam based artist specialising in outdoor performance and the founding Director of Red Herring Productions. Local projects include two iterations of Stepping Out Street Theatre Festival, The Egg Shack theatre show, commissioned by Landmark Theatres and presented in Bideford and Ilfracombe in 2024. She was Director of Green Space Dark Skies, Exmoor – a national project created by Walk The Plank as part of Unboxed Festival 2022.
In 2020, she was commissioned by The Burton to create the Pandemic Times Stock Exchange Index, a video work reflecting on the change in value of everyday items over time, including tea and toilet rolls, presented as part of the 2020 Seeds of Hope exhibition. She has run Silent Discos and performed The popular Oystercatchers strolling performance as part of the Burton Art Box outreach programme.
Time
10am – 4pm
Location
Victoria Park
Who is this event for?
Suitable for all.
Free, drop in event
