Society routinely reduces people to a single identity. and Society routinely reduces people who use drugs to a single identity- .....that of a ‘criminal’. 'HUNG, DRAWN, and 1/4rd' The title of our Exhibition and Maker's Market Day, is a defiant nod to the historical punishment of nonconformity or ‘otherness'. (incl. drug use) Today, it stands for something else: being proudly 'HUNG' on gallery walls, 'DRAWN' from living/lived experience, and not letting that '¼ ' (or whatever amount) of our experience define our creative, unapologetically human, existence. Sometimes the best way to challenge a stereotype is simply to show people something they didn't expect to see. Self-medication, ‘recreation’, insight, spiritual exploration, to stay physically or mentally ‘functioning’ (or not) and to fight dis–ease - the reasons for so-called ‘drug use’ are as many, and as varied and as nuanced as the people who take them. Today we acknowledge and celebrate ALL OF OUR EXISTENCE in a collection of community art and celebration of the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of our community's emerging and established artists, creatives and makers.