Curated by the Axis Team

A note from Harlan Whittingham

I'm often drawn to pieces that appeal to more than just my ocular senses. Both of these examples have a gorgeous haptic materiality, evoking a touch that reaches through the screen.

I particularly like the way Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton's work slides between different artistic mediums by using photographic techniques within sculpture. Catherine Wynne-Paton's and Luiza Kons' work also plays with similar translations - a project that perfectly encapsulates the collaborative potential of the Axis community!

Catherine Wynne-Paton

"Brazilian photographer Luiza Kons and I have started exchanging work after catching up in a video call on Monday to discuss our approach. I want to push myself into new experimentation with this, we'll be exchanging for a period of 3 months."

Read more about Catherine's work in her Axis Profile: https://axisweb.org/artist/catherinewynne-paton 

Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton

"My research spans many points in time and geography, eventually the meaning of the work dissolves into the making of it and ultimately questions how sculpture can embody and invoke feeling."

Read more about Rebecca's work in her Axis Profile: https://axisweb.org/artist/rebeccahalliwellsutton 

A note from Lucy Wright

I love these works which speak to ideas around folklore and ancestral knowledge, and which show the labour and skill of the makers' hands so directly. Lucie Kordacova's pieces are so textured and organic in their celebration of the more than human, while Chisara Vidale combines sculpture and painting to create an evocative and dream-like universe of interspecies kinship.

Lucie Kordacova

"My recent work focuses on practices and issues that are pertinent to the communities I work within, including how we situate ourselves in a more-than-human world."

Read more about Lucie's work in her Axis Profile: https://axisweb.org/artist/luciekordacova 
 

Chisara Vidale

"I am a London based emerging artist whose work examines our connections to each other and the natural world. I work across painting and textiles, exploring emotional and spiritual interactions with subtle changes in environment. Here is some current work that is part of a new group of paintings, informed by my cream diaries and landscapes."

Read more about Chisara's work in her Axis Profile: https://axisweb.org/artist/chisaravidale 

A note from Paisley Alice Randell Shillabeer

Drawn to found objects and their quiet ties to ritual and death, I feel a natural pull towards both of these works.

Katies's practice speaks in a language I recognise; the searching through museum archives, the crafting of small protective totems, the slow unearthing of what lies hidden. Adam and Gillian's project holds a different kind of weight - a reminder that memory softens and slips but within the photographic fragments we leave behind, we sometimes find something universal.

Katie Taylor

"I am currently working with found objects and ritual meaning. The transformation of the mundane into something imbued with meaning. I am interested in the objects we choose at times of great stress, that allow us comfort and help us move forward emotionally. Keeping us focused and grounded on the path ahead."

Read more about Katie's work in her Axis Profile: https://axisweb.org/artist/katietaylor 

Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees

"I'm Adam and I work with my long term collaborator Gillian. Mostly, we make durational Live Art, but the last few years have seen us pivot towards installation and sculpture.

We are starting this year by making a film, Sliding. It is about collection, photography and custodianship. It centers on our rather large collection of 35mm slides. You can already get the book >Here"

Read more about Gillian and Adam's work in their Axis Profile, and members can check out the screening of 'Sliding' and the q&a session that followed here in the community!