EDITORIAL


We are pleased to announce the first recipients of the Axisweb Awards 2020. A massive thank you to everyone that applied: the quality of the applications we received was incredibly high which made the decision-making process very difficult.

Sophie Bullock is the recipient of the £1,000 Project Commission. Sophie Bownes, Lady Kitt and Sunny Vowles & Inari Hulkkonen are the recipients of the the Research and Development Bursaries and will each receive £500.

The next round of Axisweb Awards will be announced at the end of March.


Our Artist of the Month for March 2020 is Freehold Projects, an artist-led exhibition and project space formerly located in our Vacant Space in Leeds.

This February, Axisweb’s R&D Coordinator, Lucy Wright travelled to Chicago to attend the annual College Arts Association (CAA) conference, also taking in Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank. In this blog post she reflects on a week spent exploring the arts scene of the Windy City.

For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who have made work about memory and remembering, featuring: Fay Ballard, Tracey Eastham, Dawn Woolley, Helen Kirwan and Tokuko Takeshita.

In this month's Playlist we present a selection of videos that refer to 'Rituals and Mysticism'. Featuring Veronique Maria, Robert Foster, Matt Rowe & Brighid Black

New Art Highlights of the week includes Robert McCubbin, Johana Hartwig, Elizabeth Hindle and Rachel Gibson

We have more copies of our Social Works?: Open for sale. Social Works?: Open speaks to the precariousness of socially engaged practice during an extended period of government-led cuts to arts funding across the UK, and the continued importance of maintaining and supporting a critical voice within socially engaged art.Contributors include: Jen Delos Reyes, Kerry Morrison, R.M. Sánchez-Camus, Claire Mead, They Are Here, Harvey Dimond, Lauren Velvick, Les Monaghan and Joe Cotgrave. 

In our monthly What's On Guide we share events from our Axis Directory members that are happening in March.

 

CONTENT


AWARDS

Award Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the first recipients of the Axisweb Awards 2020.


FEATURE

Artist of the Month - Freehold Projects

Read our interview with artist-led group Freehold Projects.


BLOG

Letters from Chicago

Lucy Wright reports back from her recent trip to Chicago.


SELECTION

Five2Watch - Memory

For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five artists who have made work about memory and remembering.


SELECTION

Playlist - Rituals and Mysticism

In this month's Playlist we present a selection of videos that refer to 'Rituals and Mysticism'.


SELECTION

Highlights

New Art Highlights of the week selected from the Axis Directory.


FOR SALE

Social Works?: Open

Get your copy of our Social Works? Open publication featuring new commissioned writing about socially engaged practice.


EVENTS

What's On - March

A selection of events happening in March from our Axis Directory members.