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Axis: broadening the constituency and extending the sphere of influence of visual art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Doug Sandle
Doug Sandle*
Affiliation:
Leeds Metropolitan University, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK
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Abstract

The Axis database is the only national information resource on British artists and craftmakers. It contains visual-text data on over 2,500 contemporary British practitioners and is a rapidly growing source of data for researchers, students, curators, commissioning agents, architects, planners and patrons and purchasers of visual arts. Axis also has an important national role in promoting contemporary art and artists and widening access to visual culture.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , 1998 , pp. 8 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1998

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References

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5. Monitoring will continue during the current year, and Axis would welcome comments from ALJ readers who have used the database, particularly if they have experience in cataloguing contemporary visual art.Google Scholar
6. In the period April 1996 to September 1997 there were 110, 961 visits to the Axis Website, which features changing exhibitions of categories of artists from the Axis database.Google Scholar
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9. Axis also monitors work and commissions arising out of inclusion on the database. There have been many examples of artists being successfully contacted by commissioning agents, galleries and exhibition organisers, for example, both within the UK and abroad. We also receive many endorsements from those who have found artists through the database, for example ‘Axis helped us considerably in selecting artists whose work could be considered for commission’ (Hay, Malcolm, Curator of Works of Art at the Palace of Westminster).Google Scholar
10. Axis can be contacted at Leeds Metropolitan University, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3HE; telephone +44 0113 245 7946; fax +44 0113 245 7950.Google Scholar