Ethics Statement

Detail: Donna Lawrence, he wrote on paper for a pill, pill, pill, 2006, oil, encaustic and collage on canvas, 122x91.4 cm

The vision, mission and goals of the Dax Centre are guided by the following ethical principles:

1. Respect for the dignity, humanity and unique experience of all people.
2. Respect for the diverse nature of people's experience of mental illness or trauma.
3. Respect for the creative process in all its diversity.
4. Acknowledgement that the creative works of those who have experienced mental illness or trauma are multidimensional and resist a single interpretive approach.
5. Respect for the freedom of viewers to interpret the works in their own way.
6. The Dax Centre exercises care and consideration in all programming, given that certain content may challenge viewers.
7. As stewards of the Collection, the Dax Centre appreciates its responsibility to act with integrity towards the creators of the works and to the works themselves.
8. The staff of the Dax Centre value an ethos of mutual respect in their professional activities.
9. The Dax Centre seeks to engage collaboratively and respectfully with other organisations.
10. The Dax Centre recognises that there is an ethical dimension to funding and sponsorship.