We are pleased to announce our participants for our partnership with European arts project, Destructura, are Emily Doyle & Madeleina Kay.
We are delighted to announce our open call for participants in Destructura. Axis have officially partnered in the two-year, cross-border collaborative project which - through research, discourse and creative work - will unearth and challenge the dominant paradigms and structures of European art worlds.
Axis is delighted to announce that submissions are once again open for Social Works?, the journal of social practice art.
To celebrate this year's International Trans Day of Visibility we take a look back at Rhiannon Lowe's Trans Panic film reel which was screened last year as part of our Axis Winter Cabaret.
An interview with Cat Bagg from Field Notes who are coordinating this year's Plymouth Art Weekender taking place 28 - 30 September 2018
Axis / Social ARTery has awarded the Digital Climate Toolkit Commission to James Harrington
2021 has been another strange and difficult year out there in the world—and we know there’s still a way to go—but we’ve enjoyed some real high points in spite of it all.
Axis is proud to present ‘Mental Health for Artists’, a new online season of events for January 2022 promoting wellbeing for creative practitioners and offering hands-on advice for creating healthy boundaries—in our practice and our lives
JarSquad Summer sessions gave JarSquad dedicated time to reflect, and collaborate with community partners to explore how our assemblies and activities might be extended to those not usually in attendance. We partnered with Nudge Community Builders, Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council (PDREC); established new connections with TimebankSW, and Diversity Business Incubator, and will continue to nurture budding relationships with Plymouth Hope, Omnium Radio, Cliik Community.
The enSHRINE projectis one of six commissions as part of AHRC funded project SAFEDI (Social Art for Equality Diversity and Inclusion). SAFEDI is an AHRC fellowship led by Manchester Metropolitan University, Social Art Network, & Axis, working with social artists, marginalised communities and policy makers around the UK to rethink what inclusion in the arts means.
Art in Words will be exploring how we artist use the written word to represent, critique, consider and expand creative practice.
A special screening of Karanjit Panesar's film 'Actor, Container'. Part of our Art in Words: Exploring new boundaries events for Directory Members
Following a mammoth response to our call out for contributions to Social Works? Open here are the thirteen writers selected for our next edition of the journal, scheduled for launch in early Autumn 2021.
Axisweb (Axis) has partnered Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) School of Art in conjunction with Social Art Network (SAN) on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) fellowship, working with six social artists, community participants, arts organisations and policy makers to understand what kind of barriers underrepresented people face around access culture and creativity.
Social Art Library—an Axis project in conjunction with Social Art Network—is excited to invite expressions of interest in ‘Storytelling for Artists’, a series of three workshops / masterclasses with writer and performer, Debs Newbold.
Social Art Library—an Axis project, in conjunction with Social Art Network—is delighted to announce 12 new art writing bursaries for Spring 2021.
Axis—in conjunction with Social Art Network—are proud to announce the launch of their Social ARTery Pioneers programme to assist in the development of a new online platform for social practice artists.
In September, Lucy Wright and Kelly Culver interviewed Axis member, Catherine Wynne-Paton about her 'Lost Library' project, for the Social Art Library, Axis's new initiative to gather and make accessible the learnings from socially-engaged art. Social Art Library is committed to helping artists to share their stories more widely.
Social Art Library—an Axis project, in partnership with Social Art Network—is delighted to announce its first 12 Social Art Library Ambassadors.
The original premise for this episode was to explore the idea of ‘A New World Order’ occasioned by Covid-19. As lock-down begins to ease (for some of us) we wanted to reflect on what, if anything, can be learned from this experience. The question stands, is there such a thing as going ‘back to normal’? And do we even want that? Join artists Elsa James, R.M Sanchez-Camus and Sian Williams talk eloquently and movingly about their own responses to this unfolding and affecting situation.
Live Out Loud is a podcast series presented by Axisweb. This week's podcast theme is about parenting during lockdown. It discusses the wider issues around parenthood and artistic practice involving artists Robyn LeRoy-Evans, Lauren McLauglin and Emily Speed, hosted by Lucy Wright.
In this special 'takeover' edition of Live Out Loud, Radha Patel and Suzanne Dhaliwal discuss radical wellbeing
This week we’re talking about the nature of ‘care’. The episode focuses primarily on how artists can practice self-care, whilst still caring for others during the global pandemic. Our host Lucy Wright, will be joined by three artists to discuss this week's theme, featuring; Lady Kitt, Amelia Hawk and David Robinson.
Axisweb is committed to supporting artists at all stages of their careers, this is especially the case during the current Covid-19 crisis. We recognise that a lot of university students are facing challenging times in the run up to their degree shows, many of which are now being presented online. Students are having to make tough decisions on how to present their work, not only for assessment but to a wider public to enjoy. This is a pivotal moment in an artist’s career and we’d like to help you realise this to its full potential.
This week Axisweb are talking about ‘Social Art in a Time of Social Distancing’ – how artists with a social practice are responding to the current imperative to ‘stay home’ and ‘save lives’ – in marked contrast to the highly embedded and embodied ways they might ordinarily work with other people and communities. Our host Lucy Wright, a social practitioner herself, will be joined by three artists also working socially; Rupi Dhillon, Sophie Bownes and Natasha Alexander.
The first Live Out Loud conversation is between Beth Davis-Hofbauer and Chantal Powell on the theme of 'Practice in Isolation'. Beth and Chantal are two artists who were recently featured in our Five2Watch which focused on artists whose experience of disability or chronic illness gives them expanded insight into making work in isolation.
2 or 3 artists invited to discuss a specific topic. Axisweb provide some prompts and questions, but they can take the conversation in any direction they would like. Recording of about 30-60 minutes in length.
A collection of sound art, music, podcasts, readings, performances and conversations from our Members, published every Sunday evening at 6pm.
Interdisciplinary artist Jo Fairfax has recently launched a new interactive art installation at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire.
The Axisweb team went behind the scenes at this year's Coventry Biennial, visiting our Vacant Space The Row. Read this article to get a better insight to what we did whilst visiting Coventry, who we spoke to and what the exhibition is like.
Social Art Publications, a new artist-led publishing initiative from the folks behind Social Art Network will be launched on 28 November 2019 at Live Art Development Agency. We chatted to R.M. Sánchez-Camus about the project and how Axisweb members can get involved…
ArtBomb is an event organised by The New Fringe and is taking place at one of our Vacant Spaces in Doncaster on Cleveland Street on the 30 November from 5pm.
Axis Directory member Helen Kilby-Nelson reports back from The Coventry Biennial, a city-wide arts festival taking place 4 October - 24 November 2019
'Artist, activist and drag king' Lady Kitt talks to us about upcoming project 'Folded Stories', a response to the permanent collection at the Bowes Museum
Interdisciplinary artist Jo Fairfax has recently launched a new interactive art installation at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire.
