Artist stories

Emily Speed writes about her international residency at the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York.

In a video interview, Simon Fenoulhet talks about working with light, in relation to a solo exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Gallery in 2006.

Helen Marshall's experience of working with a televison production company to produce an artwork for the documentary series 'Making Slough Happy'

After seeing her portrait work on Axis, Tracey Whitehead from Darton High School invited Vivienne Owen to undertake a three month residency with students.

Sara Rees keeps a journal charting the progress of her latest site-specific project with Locws International, based in Swansea.

Performed in May as part of Situation Leeds, Sarah Spanton's 'Bridge' examined layers of communication, using visual and movement-based language.

Jean Napier worked with school age children in the Moya Healing Centre, Swaziland to produce four large scales collages incorporating photographs, text, made and found objects.

Following an initial contact made through Axis by GLR Architects and Builders Carillion, Renn & Thacker were appointed to design, fabricate and install a commission for the brand new Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre.

Following an enquiry through the Axis webiste by Trish Kernan, Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi was invited to submit work for an art loan exhibition at the University of Winchester's Link Gallery, in Winchester.

After reading about the Juliet Gomperts Trust Award on the Axis noticeboard, Annie Woodford applied for project funding for a research trip to Iceland.

After seeing his work on Axis, Stephen Feeke commissioned artist Blair Cunningham to produce site specific work in response to the Vitrine ethos. Using printed maps and mirrored vinyl, Blair's work created a dialogue between the vitrines and pedestrians of Leeds city centre.

For the last two years, Rachel Gadsden has been exploring derelict asylum hospitals, and bringing a voice to the lost souls who once inhabited them.

The NHS King's fund commissioned lead artist Lisa Benton to undertake a project to provide better environments for patients within the care of the NHS Humberside Trust, Hull and Goole.

Guildford Borough Council commissioned Sue Nunn to submit designs for five linked sculptures, which would engage with residents and become well known local landmarks.

Havant Borough Council commissioned Janet Curley Cannon to provide workshops and to create a fabric backdrop for use by the Leigh Park Community Centre youth group.

The Winter Lightworks Festival commissioned artists to transform shop windows with their work as part of a temporary art programme designed to engage the public with the changes taking place in Workington town centre.

DNA, the instruction manual for all life-forms, was discovered 50 years ago. Gair Dunlop created work to mark this anniversary, contrasting ideas with reality.

Presenting personal, and overlooked, stories as museum pieces, Duncan Cameron collects and records the passing of time.

Over a few months, Rebecca Spooner kept a journal, both written and visual, charting the progress of her residency based at Newport's museum, and the village of Caerwent.

Ellen Munro uses photographs, found objects, folk-tales, and the delicacy of hand-made objects to reinvent her own stories.

Do wind farms looks good? Environmental artists Dalziel + Scullion respond to plans for a new wind farm.

Alex Frost pretends to be a machine to create large-scale drawings which are laboriously copied from one medium to another. Why?

David Mach has recently been working on large-scale collages (or photomontages) which are, like much of his work, ironic and humorous social comments.

Shani Rhys-James is well known for her intense, expressionistic paintings. Here she talks about how her paintings are created and the inspirations behind them.

Inspired by medical imaging techniques, Adinda van 't Klooster explores the way in which scientific images can alter our perception of the body and fertility.

Philippa seeks to transform the commonplace and to re-interpret the ordinary. Trained at the Royal College of Art in fine art printmaking she is often drawn to multiples, either repeating an action or repeatedly re-employing a seemingly insignificant object.

Having seen their work on Axis, the Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust commissioned Rutter and Bennet to produce a sculpture for a courtyard in the Great Western Hospital Treatment Centre in Swindon.