LUX
Waterlow Park Centre
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5JF

tel +44 (0)20 3141 2960
www.lux.org.uk




LUX MISSION AND VALUES STATEMENT

To support and promote artists’ working with the moving image

Advocacy

● Highlight, celebrate and raise awareness of the richness of artists’ moving image
work in the UK and abroad.
● Celebrate and promote the value of diversity in UK moving image and visual arts
culture.
● Influence and educate decision-makers in the importance and value of artists’
moving image work.
● Celebrate and promote a UK-wide artists’ moving image culture.
● Educate and inspire artists of the future, and promote the expressive potential of
moving image media.
● Sustain and develop new audiences for artists’ moving image work.
● Promote fair pay for artists.
● Promote critical and vocational study of artists’ moving image work in education.
● Raise and maintain the visibility of artists’ moving image work across media
including new media forms.
Promote sustainability and environmental consciousness.


Access

● Maintain, protect and develop the heritage of UK artists’ moving image work for
future generations.
● Enable UK-wide public access to the rich history of artists’ moving image
production.
● Support, platform and disseminate discourse around artists’ moving image work.
● Provide UK-wide access to professional knowledge and networks.
● Provide access to the community of artists working with the moving image in the
UK.
● Promote and provide international access to UK artists and works.

Support

● Enable the public to experience high-quality artists’ moving image works.
● Provide opportunities for artists through commissioning projects and residencies.
● Support emergent and aspirant artists engaged with the moving image to
develop skills, knowledge and networks.
● Support emergent and aspirant curators to engage with and access artists’
moving image work.
● Provide specialist technical and conceptual support to individuals and
organisations who wish to work with artists and show artists’ moving image
work.
● Enable artists to earn income from their work and develop a sustainable practice.

VALUES

LUX’s values are inspired by its co-operative roots and the unique qualities of the medium we work with, which demand networked communities for its production and dissemination.Our core values can thus be summarised as:

● Self-help. Supporting and empowering our users to develop skills and knowledge
to develop a sustainable sector.
● Self-responsibility. We seek to empower our users to contribute to the culture
they want
● Democracy. All of our users are treated as equals and we seek to hold the artists’
voice at the centre of the organisation.
● Equality. We believe everyone has a right to the culture we represent
● Equity. We are committed to fairness in all of our work, we recognise difference
and will make accommodations to ensure equal access.
● Solidarity. We support the needs of the many over the interests of the few.
● Furthermore, LUX believes in the values of honesty, openness, social
responsibility and caring for others in all of its activities.