Close to 2,000 images of the work of twelve contemporary Asian and African artists working in the UK, selected from the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA), is the latest addition to VADS, the UK's Visual Arts Data Service. AAVAA, founded in 1989, which has an impressive collection that includes over 6,000 slides, publications, and videos by and about artists; biographical files; and...

Funded by the Arts Councils of England, Wales and Scotland, and seven regional arts boards, Axis is "the largest interactive database of contemporary British art on the Internet." Created to provide information about artists and makers living/working in Britain to a national and international audience, the database curently offers over 12,500 images from 3,300 artists and makers. Users can search...