Charlotte Betteley / Dan Cervi / Joe Evans / Katherine Gallacher / Saumel Jeffery / Lu Di / Harry Meadley / Salma Noor / Alistair Owen / Mike Pratt / Jamie Singh / Carrie Skinner / Tim Stock / Louise Emily Thomas / Joe Weldon / Ben Wheele

Artists were selected by The Royal Standard from a pool of recent graduates nominated by Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; G39, Cardiff; Outpost, Norwich; Project Space Leeds, Leeds; Spike Island, Bristol; Tether, Nottingham; Transmission, Glasgow and Workplace, Newcastle.

Littlewhitehead

Glasgow-based duo Littlewhitehead radically transformed the gallery space during their three-week residency, working in response to experiences and found items from their time in Liverpool.

Littlewhitehead utilise strategies of humour, fantasy and desire mixed with fear and anxiety in such a way as to make their sculptures and installations simultaneous both attractive and repellent. Exploring the nature of voyeurism, their work reminds us that witnessing is not neutral or impassive; in a mixing of public and private space, vision and violation coverage.

Tom Milnes was artist in residence at The Royal Standard for three weeks, developing a number of projects both inside and outside the studio complex. Working in a variety of media including sound, performance, installation and interactive web-based projects, Tom probes the possibilities opened up by technology in sublime or humorous ways with works often stemming from initial scientific experiments behind modern technology; reworking, mapping, recreating or explaining what has been discovered.

For one week following the residency, Tom opened up his studio to the public as he continued to work at The Royal Standard, experimenting with robotics and homemade sequential circuits to animate forms that he developed during the residency. This featured a liver performance of his work 21st Century One-Man Ban, in which the artist uses mobile audio gadgets to create music.

Andrea Booker / David Gledhill / Dave Griffiths / Magnus Quaife / Maeve Rendle

The Royal Standard, Vauxhall Business Estate / Rogue Artist’s Studios, Manchester

All Change initiated a direct artist exchange between The Royal Standard and Rogue Artist Studios in Manchester. Five artists from Rogue worked and exhibited in the gallery space, whilst eight artists from The Royal Standard travelled to Manchester in order to continue a dialogue between the two spaces.

The exhibition brought together new works by seven artists from the UK and Europe, exploring themes of lust, exploration, sarcasm, sincerity and desperation. Each of the exhibition artists dealt with these issues through formal manipulation and the historicity of their chosen medium.

Running in parallel, a programme of short films, clips and music videos entitled Pretty Deep TV expanded on themes in the exhibition and highlighted the curator’s influences.

Jo Addison / Craig Atkinsons / Ayling and Conroy / Sovay Berriman / David Blandy / Andrew Bracey / Shane Bradford / Rhys Coren / Michael Cousin / Martyn Cross / Fiona Curran / Gordon Dalton / Craig Fisher / James R Ford / Stephen Forge / Adam Goodge / Lesley Halliwell / Sean Hawkridge / Aaron Head / Neil Hedger / Toby Huddlestone / Hilary Jack / Brendan Jamison / David Kefford / Simon Liddiment / Hayley Lock / Nicki McCubbing / Kate Parrott / Dan Perjovski / Chris Poolman / Liz Rowe / Sam Venables / Nick White / Rachel Wilberforce / Jeremy Willett

SALE transformed the white walled galleries at The Royal Standard into an art superstore stocked with hundreds of artworks selected from the most exciting emerging and more established artists from the UK and beyond.

SALE presented special offers to tempt you into buying that ‘must have’ artwork. With prices from a few pounds to a few thousand, fluctuating throughout the show as artists’ profiles soar and dive-it was up to the customer to buy when the price was right.