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Axisweb UK charity championing contemporary visual arts, supporting artists with resources and opportunities to make art accessible and engaging for all.

Axisweb Supports and Profiles Artists

Artists inform everything we do. An independent charity, we are committed to providing a platform to support artists and profile what they do. Through a determination to create the space artists need, our programme comprises a range of activities:

Reflecting the artists’ voice is integral to emerging developments in contemporary art, across assorted contexts. We present new aspects and forms of artistic expression to local, national and international audiences. Providing support: insurance, networks, space, opportunities, R&D awards, profiling, advice, mentoring - enabling artists to be artists. Artists blur the boundaries and we adapt and change with their evolution, seeking to provide the best support we can. As a small team of artists, curators, producers and writers, having dialogue with our members is critical. Members influence and inform all our activities and developments. By shifting from the gallery-led system of spectatorship to one that begins with the artist, we create the opportunity to support a more widely engaged and diverse community of artists, commissioners and audiences. We actively seek new collaborations with artists, producers, curators, commissioners and organisations who share our values and seek to work with, support and profile artists.

B2S online: Show Me the Money with Samra Mayanja📆 21st October | 7 pm | FREE | 🔗 https://buff.ly/HyaOhkF.Money is the th...
14/10/2026

B2S online: Show Me the Money with Samra Mayanja
📆 21st October | 7 pm | FREE | 🔗 https://buff.ly/HyaOhkF.

Money is the thing artists are least often taught to handle and most often kept awake by. A practical and reflective workshop on what you charge, how you talk about it, and what your own attitude to finances is quietly doing to your practice.

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

OPEN CALL - Venice Fellowship Programme 2027 🔗 https://buff.ly/EFVI3xd Axis is delighted to have partnered with the Brit...
12/10/2026

OPEN CALL - Venice Fellowship Programme 2027
🔗 https://buff.ly/EFVI3xd

Axis is delighted to have partnered with the British Council again to be a part of the Venice Fellowships Programme 2027. One Axis Member will receive funding to spend a month in Venice during the world’s most important art and architecture biennales.

The Venice Fellowships Programme 2027 is a key part of the British Council’s presence in Venice, supporting the exhibition as well as being a platform for the development of emerging creative professionals and future leaders. The 20th International Architecture Exhibition will take place at the Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, from Saturday 8 May to Sunday 21 November 2027.

The Programme offers a unique opportunity for an Axis Member to spend a month in Venice during the Biennale, alongside a cohort of their peers, broadening their perspective, making new connections, networking and developing their creative practice.

📷: Venice Biennale 2026 British Pavilion, photo by Dan Weill

TONIGHT | 7 pm | FREE | 🔗 https://buff.ly/GAloB8p How to Enter the Art World with Hettie JudahEvery event is FREE & OPEN...
07/10/2026

TONIGHT | 7 pm | FREE | 🔗 https://buff.ly/GAloB8p
How to Enter the Art World with Hettie Judah

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

How To Enter the Art World - After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, or leaving it in disgust, Hettie Judah talks about the artists building a practice outside of the established 'norms' of art world success.

B2S online: Book Club - How to Enter the Art World with Hettie Judah📆 7th October | 7 pm | FREEEvery event is FREE & OPE...
05/10/2026

B2S online: Book Club - How to Enter the Art World
with Hettie Judah
📆 7th October | 7 pm | FREE

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, or leaving it in disgust, Hettie Judah talks about the artists building a practice outside of the established 'norms' of art world success.

🔗 in the bio or head here: https://buff.ly/qpDrj0x

Highlights1. Scene From a Broken Storybook, 2026 by Robert SherrattAcrylic on canvas.2. soft encounters, 2024 - 2026 by ...
04/10/2026

Highlights

1. Scene From a Broken Storybook, 2026 by Robert Sherratt

Acrylic on canvas.

2. soft encounters, 2024 - 2026 by natalia dominika janula

This research offers a distinctive, practice-led inquiry into the hybrid, q***r, and magical potentials of everyday objects (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Grosz, 1994). By producing objects that misbehave, resist functionality, and blend natural, industrial, and speculative elements, the project advances understandings of material agency, posthumanist and feminist objecthood, and speculative practice (Bennett, 2010; Haraway, 2016; Moten & Harney, 2013). Drawing on the Body without Organs as a conceptual lens, the research explores objects and assemblages as sites of potentiality and relationality, resisting fixed hierarchies and functional determinism.

3. Photogenic Landscape, 2025 - 2026 by Clive Brandon

Collage on board.

4. Unruly Element, 2026 by Penny Hallas

Created for 's 25th anniversary programme, 'Fist Inside the Velvet Glove'.

‘Unruly Element’ is an installation comprising projection/moving-image and equine skeletal remains, linking environmental, psychological and mythical forces, channelling ideas of damage and transformation. Deep at the heart of ritual, myth, celebration and mourning, fire invades spaces beyond predictable boundaries. Protean in nature, both a signifier for the comforts of home, domesticity and companionship and a raging destructive force devouring everything in its path.

In 2013 Kim Fielding sent out photos of the destruction by fire of the Old Laundry, former home of tactileBOSCH. I’ve combined his images with footage of fires witnessed in-and-around Llangatwg, Powys and (referencing the Chinese Year of the Horse) the semi-wild ponies that live and die on the mountain, whose skeletal remains can be found in the grass. Horribly, since planning this work in Spring, fires have swept the land.

For this part of the celebrations, tactileBOSCH are ‘taking over the upper floors of The Morgan Arcade for three days of live performance, installation, cinema, sound, radio, walking and archival encounters.’ Thursday 15 Oct 2026 14:00 through to Saturday 17 Oct 2026 22:00.

Sound: Lyndon Davies

B2S online: Book Club - How to Enter the Art World with Hettie Judah📆 7th October | 7 pm | FREEAfter a late start, a fir...
01/10/2026

B2S online: Book Club - How to Enter the Art World
with Hettie Judah
📆 7th October | 7 pm | FREE

After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, or leaving it in disgust, Hettie Judah talks about the artists building a practice outside of the established 'norms' of art world success.

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

🔗 in the bio or head here: https://buff.ly/qpDrj0x

TONIGHT!B2S online: What Curators Want with Emalee Beddoes and Matthew Pendergast 📆 30th September | 7 pm | FREEEvery ev...
30/09/2026

TONIGHT!

B2S online: What Curators Want
with Emalee Beddoes and Matthew Pendergast
📆 30th September | 7 pm | FREE

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

Two curators, one in a regional museum service and one in a Manchester gallery, on what they look for, how they come across artists in the first place, and what makes a working relationship one they want to repeat.

🔗 Head here: https://buff.ly/AmMSc6b

CURATED SELECTION: World as a DiagramCurated by Maria Hinel"A diagram is, fundamentally, a relational thing. It proposes...
28/09/2026

CURATED SELECTION: World as a Diagram
Curated by Maria Hinel

"A diagram is, fundamentally, a relational thing. It proposes that nothing exists entirely in isolation – each element is tethered to everything else with a network of lines that denote movement or connection. Operating as a mode of reasoning, rather than representation, a diagram is therefore rooted in time, whilst remaining intrinsically elastic."

About the Curator:
Maria Hinel is a London-based independent curator and writer. Her curatorial work focuses on the intersections between art and philosophy, with a particular focus on human and non-human relations, language, identity and gender. As an independent curator, Maria has organised exhibitions across public spaces, institutions and galleries.

👉 We will be sharing a closer look at the selected works following.
🔗 Read the essay by following the link in our bio, or head here: https://buff.ly/0bo2bl1

BOOK NOW!Would you like to talk through elements of your practice and any development aspirations you have this month? R...
28/09/2026

BOOK NOW!

Would you like to talk through elements of your practice and any development aspirations you have this month? Register your interest for Critical Friend Conversations with Harriet Bowman and Lucy Wright!

Harriet can offer support in the following areas:
Art Writing, Sculpture, Material Research, Application Writing

✍️ Registration Deadline: 5pm - 5th October 2026
🔗 Head here: https://buff.ly/sFhA7Iu

These conversations offer a one-off chance to have a chat with someone who can potentially support you with something relating to your artist practice or professional artist development.

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