Welcome to Axis
A platform for contemporary visual arts. We support practice, grow visibility, and foster community — helping artists develop, connect, and keep going.
Supporting artist wellbeing through conversation, connection, and care
Mental Health For Artists 2026
Axis presents a season of talks exploring care, vulnerability, and sustainability in creative practice. Across five events, artists share ways of working that are rooted in attentiveness, lived experience, and long-term thinking.
(Image credit: gobscure performance 2017, The Art House, Wakefield. Photo Jules Lister)
Governance
We are recruiting new trustees
Help shape the future of Axis. Find out what becoming a trustee involves and whether it feels right for you.
Looking Back
Meet Artists
From the Archive
Axis was one of the first and only arts organisations to offer direct financial support to artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Hardship Fund for Artists distributed £15,000 in support bursaries from Axis’s own reserves, demonstrating a continued commitment to care, community and artistic resilience.
SOAL: Ambassadors and Storytelling for Artists expanded the Social Art Library through Art Fund–supported commissions, workshops and public events. Artists explored new ways of archiving social practice, creating stories, toolkits and artworks that captured artists’ and communities’ responses to the pandemic and wider social change.
Commissioned by Axis in 2015, Validation Beyond the Gallery explored how artists working outside traditional gallery systems gain recognition for their practice. The research became a catalyst for rethinking how Axis supports and values artists, marking a shift toward an artist-first approach that continues to guide the organisation today.
