Ashley Holmes is an artist interested in hybrid and collaborative methods of production, publishing and broadcasting. Recent research and projects have explored the ways western norms of ownership have informed both music circulation and people’s right to access land. His work takes place in the context of exhibitions, performances, radio broadcasts, listening events and DJ sets, and is shaped by Black Radical traditions and experimental approaches to working with sound, listening, writing and knowledges beyond borders, spatial constraints and categorisations.
Ashley is a resident on NTS Radio and has hosted Tough Matter, a monthly show of experimental music and sound since 2017. He facilitates Open Deck, a series of gatherings started in 2018 giving space to collectively listen and hold discursive space around embodied knowledges and relationships to music, sound, memory and oral histories.
In 2024 he was recipient of the Serpentine’s Support Structures for Support Structures fellowship award. He is a lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Liverpool John Moores University where he is also currently completing an MA in Fine Art. Ashley has shown work and facilitated workshops with arts organisations and performed at festivals including: V&A Museum, Frieze London, Turner Contemporary, Arts Catalyst, Primary, Horst Arts & Music Festival, No Bounds Festival, We Out Here Festival and more.
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