Ashley Holmes (b. Luton, 1990) is an artist exploring experimental and collaborative approaches to working with sound, performance, publishing and broadcasting. His practice examines music, sound and some of the infrastructures, material traces and social relations through which it is produced, circulated and remembered.

Through a range of collaborative and experimental approaches to field recording, sound composition, printmaking, drawing and writing, Holmes investigates the ways sound mediates relationships between memory, place and embodied and lived experience.

His recent research considers how legal frameworks of ownership, copyright and property shape the circulation of music and its entanglement with ecological concerns, identity and belonging.

Recent exhibitions and performances include Glasgow International, Berwick Film & Arts Festival, Spike Island (2026), the V&A Museum (2025), Arts Catalyst, No Bounds Festival, We Out Here Festival (2024), Horst Arts & Music Festival (2023), Turner Contemporary (2022), Frieze London (2021), the National Football Museum (2019) and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (2018).

Since 2017, Holmes has hosted Tough Matter on NTS Radio, using broadcasting as an extension of his artistic practice. He also organises Open Deck, a programme of collective listening sessions and more recently has been developing Dub Epistemologies - a series of live audio essays exploring embodied knowledge, oral histories and the politics of musical transmission. In 2024, he was awarded Serpentine's Support Structures for Support Structuresfellowship. Holmes teaches on the BA Fine Art programme at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is currently completing an MA in Fine Art.