Gallery 1
Skye Jamieson, Adina West, Tom Buckland, Rowan Mcguiness, Belle Palmer, Patrick Larmour, Ruby Rossiter and Jess Semler
Curated by Belle Palmer
15 January - 31 January 2021
o have a double standard is to apply different sets of principles to a situation, principles that in practice are contradictory to one another, benefiting oneself or a group of people. The application of a double standard is used in a multitude of ways, and can be seen as a mechanism that dis-empowers people by the desire to be right. Time and time again we experience double standards within society, which are present in politics, gender, social conditioning, relationships, ethics, morality and art.
Double Standard is the examination of how we affect and are affected by the principles in our lives. This exhibition challenges our Artists to present their work in a different contexts of a double standard, and juxtapose their ideas, media and use of space.
Tom Buckland, Adina West, Patrick Larmour, Belle Palmer, Rowan McGinness, Esther Carlin, Ruby Rossiter, Jess Semler and Sky Jamieson are all graduates of the School of Art and Design who work in a diverse range of media. Although each of their practice varies, each artist is linked by the way they challenge the initial functions of static art in a contemporary context.
Image: Belle Palmer Insert title here 2019 marker on calico 1500x1500 Photo: David Lindesay