EDITORIAL


Our Artist of the Month for October is Nottingham-based artist Katharina Fitz. we talk to her about her practice and her inclusion in this year's New Contemporaries which is currently on at Leeds Art Gallery.

We are pleased to welcome our new Digital Marketing Apprentice Becca Linley to the Axisweb team. Becca will be helping us with our content strategy across our website and social media platforms.

'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 

For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five of our members taking part in this year's Coventry Biennial, featuring: Andrew Jackson, Anne-Mie Melis, Lorsen Camps, James Clarkson and Laura Onions.

New Art Highlights of the week includes Sharon Haward, Lady Kitt, Caro Williams and Maria Kuipers.

In this month's Playlist we present a selection of videos that explore light. Featuring: Alix Poscharsky, Susan Williams MRBS, Robert Luzar and Riccardo Iacono.

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 October.

 

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FEATURE

Artist of the Month - Katharina Fitz

For October's Artist of the Month we've selected Nottingham-Based artist Katharina Fitz.


NEW STAFF

Welcome Becca!

We welcome Becca Linley as our new Digital Marketing Apprentice.


FEATURE

Lady Kitt: Folded Stories

'Artist, activist and drag king' Lady Kitt talks to us about upcoming project 'Folded Stories'.


SELECTION

Five2Watch

For #Five2Watch this week we've selected five of our members taking part in this year's Coventry Biennial.


SELECTION

Playlist

In this month's Playlist we present a selection of videos that explore light.


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 - October

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