Creative Equity Toolkit

The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards

Challenging the biases inherent within ideas of 'professionalism'. This article questions whether traditional standards and values are in fact objective and unbiased. Specific types of bias (for example the use of language and grammar) are listed and explored.

The Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

A toolkit for co-creating an exhibition, with a focus on including the community from beginning to end.

The costs of code switching

Code-switching is a conscious or unconscious adjusting of one’s style of speech, appearance or behavior in ways that will optimize the comfort of others in the hope of fair treatment and employment opportunities. But how does it affect an employee's wellbeing?

The Dominance of the White Male Critic

Review of the reviewers, and the dangers of a national art debate that remains 'largely segregated'. It begins with a look at the 2019 Whitney Biennial in the US.

'Several white reviewers faintly praised the show but argued that it wasn’t “radical” enough. In response, Simone Leigh, an artist featured in the Biennial, suggested that reviewers could not detect radicalism in her work because they were unfamiliar with the art, artists and themes she draws from, a criticism others echoed.'

The Exhibitionist

Art tours of UK galleries and museums that position works in the context of colonialism, imperialism and racism.

'we unravel the role colonialism played in shaping and funding a major national collection, looking at the broader material history of celebrated works: where the money comes from, the ways they’ve been displayed, and the ideological aesthetics at work. The history of British art is also the history of empire and genocide, written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives.'