MAPA Art and Architecture.
An art and architecture practice founded by Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline working between the social and the spatial.
︎︎︎Public art + public space consultancy
︎︎︎ Architecture projects
︎︎︎Public art projects
︎︎︎Exhibitions
︎︎︎ Articles + Press
About us
Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen’s collaborative creative practice is centred on working in the public domain and can be defined as critical spatial practice.
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Heidi Axelsen comes from a background in sculpture & community cultural development & Hugo Moline with a background in socially engaged architecture. Their work is contextual, participatory, socially grounded, place based; and takes various forms: permanent public art, temporal & durational works, social practice, architecture, curation, urban design, speculative proposals & community-based research.
Significant works include: Open Field Agency (2017 - 2025), Memory Vessel a permanent public artwork at Westmead Hospital (2020), Plant Nation (2021) commissioned by UAP, The Visitors (2019) MAMA Gallery, Owner Occupy, (2015) Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation & 2000 Waraji 200 Feet (2015), Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial.
Grants and awards received include a Career Development Grant from the Australia Council (2018), The Sainsbury Sculpture Prize (2014), the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2008). Residencies include NIDA Art Colony (LT), Kerstin Kjaers Museum (DK); Australia House (JP); Silpakorn University (TH); Schumacher College (UK).
Hugo Moline and Heidi Axelsen’s collaborative creative practice is centred on working in the public domain and can be defined as critical spatial practice.
Heidi Axelsen comes from a background in sculpture & community cultural development & Hugo Moline with a background in socially engaged architecture. Their work is contextual, participatory, socially grounded, place based; and takes various forms: permanent public art, temporal & durational works, social practice, architecture, curation, urban design, speculative proposals & community-based research.
Significant works include: Open Field Agency (2017 - 2025), Memory Vessel a permanent public artwork at Westmead Hospital (2020), Plant Nation (2021) commissioned by UAP, The Visitors (2019) MAMA Gallery, Owner Occupy, (2015) Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation & 2000 Waraji 200 Feet (2015), Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial.
Grants and awards received include a Career Development Grant from the Australia Council (2018), The Sainsbury Sculpture Prize (2014), the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2008). Residencies include NIDA Art Colony (LT), Kerstin Kjaers Museum (DK); Australia House (JP); Silpakorn University (TH); Schumacher College (UK).
Heidi Axelsen
BFA (Sculpture) National Art School
Phd candidate, MADA, Monash University.
Heidi Axelsen has 15 years experience working as an artist, curator and planner on public art and cultural projects. She has also worked on numerous roles within local government in community cultural development and creative industries in Sydney and Newcastle NSW.
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Dr. Hugo Moline .
Phd (Architecture) Sydney Uni.
Registered Architect NSW ARB #10760
Hugo trained as an architect and has worked on housing and public space projects for communities in Western Sydney, Bangkok, Manila, and Suva and Lautoka in Fiji. Moline is the recipient of numerous awards andlecturer in Architecture at the University of Newcastle.
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