Welcome.

social Art Library by Axis

You are visiting the Social art library (SOAL), a collectively-built archive and resource library for social practice by Axis.

SOAL is an interactive digital space that holds a permanent collection of custom content created and commissioned by Axis, an archive collection of projects submitted by artists, an artist/librarian-in-residence programme, and a digital archive of current thinking around the intersection between art and society.

We built the Social Art Library in collaboration with social practitioners from across the UK and beyond. This means that the format you are currently navigating does not represent the final form - we still need your help to determine the best, most useful, most meaningful way to showcase knowledge from and about social art.

Axis also partnered with Social Art Network on Social Art programme during the pandemic to develop a collection for contemporary response work supported by Art Fund.

To find out more, or to join the mailing list, you can email us at: librarian@socialartlibrary.org.