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TONIGHT!

B2S online: What Curators Want
with Emalee Beddoes and Matthew Pendergast
📆 30th September | 7 pm | FREE

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

Two curators, one in a regional museum service and one in a Manchester gallery, on what they look for, how they come across artists in the first place, and what makes a working relationship one they want to repeat.

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CURATED SELECTION: World as a Diagram
Curated by Maria Hinel

"A diagram is, fundamentally, a relational thing. It proposes that nothing exists entirely in isolation – each element is tethered to everything else with a network of lines that denote movement or connection. Operating as a mode of reasoning, rather than representation, a diagram is therefore rooted in time, whilst remaining intrinsically elastic."

About the Curator:
Maria Hinel is a London-based independent curator and writer. Her curatorial work focuses on the intersections between art and philosophy, with a particular focus on human and non-human relations, language, identity and gender. As an independent curator, Maria has organised exhibitions across public spaces, institutions and galleries.

👉 We will be sharing a closer look at the selected works following.
🔗 Read the essay by following the link in our bio, or head here: https://buff.ly/0bo2bl1

BOOK NOW!

Would you like to talk through elements of your practice and any development aspirations you have this month? Register your interest for Critical Friend Conversations with Harriet Bowman and Lucy Wright!

Harriet can offer support in the following areas:
Art Writing, Sculpture, Material Research, Application Writing

✍️ Registration Deadline: 5pm - 5th October 2026
🔗 Head here: https://buff.ly/sFhA7Iu

These conversations offer a one-off chance to have a chat with someone who can potentially support you with something relating to your artist practice or professional artist development.

World as a Diagram
Curated by Maria Hinel

Bringing together works by five contemporary artists, World as a Diagram considers the interaction between the processes of making a diagram and making a mark. Featuring artworks by: Mary Yacoob, Marcia Teusink, Lucy Austin, Olivia Hicks and Carrie Stanley.

"For this curated selection, I would like to work with the theme of a diagram and diagrammatic thinking as a way of making sense, making fun, as well as highlighting the limits of human knowledge."

👉 We will be exploring the artists and their work throughout the week, or you can take a look through 'World as a Diagram' now, in the Axis Community, or on our website here: https://buff.ly/cSWEMig

B2S online: What Curators Want - NEXT WEEK!
with Emalee Beddoes and Matthew Pendergast
📆 30th September | 7 pm | FREE

Two curators, one in a regional museum service and one in a Manchester gallery, on what they look for, how they come across artists in the first place, and what makes a working relationship one they want to repeat.

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

🔗 Head here: https://buff.ly/AmMSc6b

B2S online: What Curators Want
with Emalee Beddoes and Matthew Pendergast
📆 30th September | 7 pm | FREE

Two curators, one in a regional museum service and one in a Manchester gallery, on what they look for, how they come across artists in the first place, and what makes a working relationship one they want to repeat.

Every event is FREE & OPEN TO ANYONE, member or not! Axis is a charity funded by its members, and that is what pays for this: no sponsorship, no public funding, no ticket sales.

🔗 Head here: https://buff.ly/AmMSc6b

POP-UP CRIT CLUB
📆 24th September ⏰ 12-1pm 🔗 https://buff.ly/ucZwxX3

Join Axis Producer Emma Copley for an informal and supportive crit session designed to encourage discussion, feedback and connection between artists. Whether you are working towards a finished piece or are still developing ideas, this is a chance to share your work, gain fresh perspectives and hear from your peers in a relaxed setting.

Four members will have the opportunity to present work for up to five minutes each, followed by five minutes of peer observations and discussion, with Emma facilitating the session. Any remaining time will be used for an open conversation about artistic practice, current projects, challenges, or recent developments.

If there is more time left over in this 60 minute session we will then open up the room for an open conversation about our artists practices, or particular projects you are working on, struggles you may be having, or progress you are making!

🤝 Axis' meet-ups are held according to our Community Guidelines and we kindly ask you to be mindful of what you share in case images/topics are of a sensitive nature as they might cause distress to other viewers.

Highlights

1. Pilgrimage, 2023 by Anna Gillespie

Wall based work in plaster and twigs on the theme of walking and touching the earth. Made for an exhibition at Tremenheere sculpture gardens in Cornwall.

2. 270726, 2024 - 2026 by Stuart Dodman

Oil on canvas.Part of a series of work produced while thinking about accumulation, experience, mass, material and time.

3. Crushed, 2026 by Graeme Reed

At first the image looks like the remains of something that has been flattened or broken, but it is difficult to say exactly what it is. The longer you look, the more the shapes seem to shift, revealing different possibilities without settling on one. The scattered forms around the main image add to the feeling that something has come apart. Rather than illustrating destruction directly, the print captures a moment of uncertainty, leaving viewers to decide what has happened and what the fragments might represent.

4. Edge of Space, 2019 by Ginny Reed

‘Edge of Space’, appropriates video of Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the stratosphere in 2012. His body, descending at supersonic speed, tumbles feather-like in the air, before stabilising to a barely discernible, diving figure. A short-wave infrared camera; ‘JLAIR’ (Joint Long-range Aerospace Imaging and Relay), captured Baumgartner from 24 miles away. This custom-developed, high-powered optical tracking unit occasionally loses its tiny target, and the footage judders before reconnecting. The soft, low-fi quality also reflects the challenge of capturing a human at this distance and speed. Like many experiments in emergent astrophotography, Baumgartner’s dive is at the limits of the apparatus’ abilities to capture it. The soundtrack combines the sonic boom when Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier with an atmospheric imagining of outer space from the Warner Brothers sound catalogue. The reality of this record breaking dive reflects the physics defying nature of animation; a dangerous, crazily ambitious plan that the protagonist pulls off in style.

MENTOR PROFILE: Antonio Roberts

We provide monthly opportunities for our Professional Members to have one to one discussions with experts in the visual arts about their practice and development aspirations. We asked one of our mentors, artist, musician and curator Antonio Roberts, what he likes about offering these sessions.

Head here to learn more: https://buff.ly/OnXd4Wj

📷: Antonio Roberts photographed by Emily Jones

🎒 BACK TO SCHOOL

Back to School with Axis is our annual season of FREE events on the practical business of being an artist: the things art school did not teach you, or taught on the day you were not there!

👉 Free, Online with Q&As. Click here: https://buff.ly/IRmA3xR

👏 Huge thanks to our contributors:
Emalee Beddoes, Matthew Pendergast, Hettie Judah, Samra Mayanja, Lydia Figes, Karina Thompson and Diana Scarborough, with Edwin Colyer!