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FOR ARTISTS

£15.00 pa (early career artists)
£28.50 pa (full artist membership)

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The website attracts over half a million page views and 65,000 visitors each month
Join the 2,600+ Directory members online
65% of artists have gained an opportunity as a direct result of their Axis membership.

Percentage based on a survey of 400 Directory members, June 2009
‘I like the layout and look of the artists’ pages and find it easy to use.’

Katy Woods, Sheffield, joined 2006
25% of website visitors are from outside the UK
‘Very good links to competitions, exhibitions, curators and other artists’

Kelly Jenkins, London, joined 2005
‘Axis is clear, well organised and has given me opportunities. I like the statistics page to find out how many people are showing an interest in my work.’

Edward Ashton, Monmouth, Wales, joined 2008
Last year 3,500 enquiries were made to 1,560 Directory members via the website
‘Because you know everyone who is a member of Axis has had to go through a selection process, you can rely on the standard being incredibly high.’
 

Donna Lynas, Director, Wysing Arts Centre
‘It's a home for artists and I am very happy to be part of the Axis family.’

Renate Aller, New York, joined 1999

 
Membership costs just £27 a year if you are based in England and Wales and £54 for everywhere else
Axis is a charity funded by Arts Council England and the Arts Council of Wales

Your own web pages on the Axis website

  • You can easily create your unique web pages
    to promote your work
  • We promote the website to art professionals for you
  • Your pages have a high Google (and other search engines) ranking
  • A presence on Axis pushes traffic to your own website
  • Axis offers a stimulating and influential context
    for your work
  • You can easily upload, change and add text, images, film and audio to your artist profile at any time
  • We offer a statistical breakdown of visitors to your pages to help you monitor success
  • Friendly and knowledgeable staff are always on hand for membership advice and technical support

Great work opportunities for artists

  • You can access our comprehensive listing of
    over 200 regional, national and international opportunities
  • Opportunities are selected to ensure we only include work with clear financial and professional benefit
  • We send you tailored emails with opportunities which particularly suit your practice
  • What’s more, we work with art professionals to match you to their opportunities

Networking and connections

  • We offer a vetted, spam-free enquiries service,
    so that art professionals can contact you through
    the website
  • You can connect with an unlimited number of Axis Directory members directly through the website
  • Join in our many discussion forums on the members-only network
  • Read about and debate the latest art world hot topics with other website users in our webzine, Dialogue

 

Further information

Application criteria
About the applicaton
Image formats
Early career membership

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