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RILEY AXON WILKEN

1996 - currentCollaborations

riley.axon.studios@gmail.com
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LinkedInRiley Axon is a visual artist working across graphic design, painting, and the creation of visual worlds for film projects. Their practice is shaped by curiosity and a steady pull toward themes of identity, community, and queerness. Riley’s work moves between mediums in a way that feels intuitive, building images, textures, and stories that sit somewhere between the personal and the cinematic. Each project is a chance to try something new, to push a little further, and to quietly ask, what’s next?DE
Riley Axon ist eine vielseitige visuelle Künstlerperson, bekannt für einen frischen, innovativen Zugang zu Kreativität. Getrieben von Neugier beschäftigt sich Riley in der eigenen Arbeit mit Themen wie Identität, Community und Queerness. Grenzen auszuloten und Menschen auf einer persönlichen Ebene einzuladen, sich mit dem Werk zu verbinden, gehört zu Rileys künstlerischem Verständnis. Mit jedem neuen Projekt stellt Riley erneut die Frage: Was kommt als Nächstes?SERVICES
Graphic Design Projects
BTS filming & editing
Storyboarding
Creative Research
Director’s Treatments
Location Decks
Mix of all of the above

ARCHIVE
Graphic Design
Photography
Film Industry
Paintings
 FILM INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
  • Robot
Jan. 2024 - current  
Creative.
Tasks include: directors’ treatments, creative research, pre-production booklets, location decks, filming and editing social media content.
Utilising AI for storyboarding and other experimental projects.
  • 400SEATS
Behind the scenes and zine design on the Puma Mostro shoot.
  • Evolve Studios
Creative research for KFC pitch.

GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECTS

INTERIOR DESIGN PROJECTS
  • Cape Town Furniture Week x NISH
  • 100% Design x Decorex Joburg
  • Onid Design
ART EXHIBITIONS
  • Walk with me, virtual exhibition, ArtBankSA, 2024.
  • RAW, Kitsune, 2024.
  • Intimate Histories, Latitudes Online, 2023.
  • Together, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 2022.
  • Girls run the world, Eclectica, Cape Town, 2022.
  • Blue tape series, P72, Johannesburg, 2021.
  • It doesn’t have to be this way, Hillbrewed, 2021

LEADERSHIP
  • Mentor at TouchSA, 2022.
  • Student Representative Council,
    Academy of Digital Arts, Cape Town, 2022.
  • Managing The Art Room, JHB, 2021.

COURSES
  • Ai Filmmaking, 2025  
  • Graphic Design, Academy of Digital Arts, Cape Town, 2022. 
  • Business Acumen for Artists, Cape Town Creative Academy, 2022. 
  • Adobe Certified Professional, Adobe, 2022. 

    SOFTWARE
    • Adobe Illustrator /5
    • Adobe InDesign /5
    • Adobe Photoshop /5
    • Premiere Pro /5
    • Pitch /5
    • Figma /5
    MENTORSHIPS
    • ArtbankSA X IZIKO National Museum, 2024.
    • Design Indaba, 2023.
    • ArtbankSA X IZIKO National Museum, 2023.
    • CT Creative Academy, Business Acumen for Artists, 2022.
    • Loeries x Woolworths, Portfolio Bootcamp, 2022.
    • Karabo Poppy x HALLS, 2021.

    AWARDS
    • ArtBankSA x National Museum, PESP4 Program, 2023.
    • Design Indaba Emerging Creative, class of 2023.
    • ArtBankSA x National Museum, PESP4 Program, 2022.
    • Loeries x Woolworths Bootcamp, awarded top ten creative students across Africa and the Middle East, 2022.

    MEDIA
    • Expresso Show, 2023.
    • Design Indaba, 2023.
    Website posted on we[dot]art — curated creative directory


    GRAPHIC DESIGN
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    PAINTINGS    LINKEDIN