Ashley Holmes is an artist exploring collaborative and experimental approaches to working with sound, performance, publishing and broadcasting. His work critically examines the ways music and sound function as sites of knowledge production, collective memory, and political possibility. Holmes’ recent research investigates how Western norms of ownership and property shape the circulation of music, access to land, and relationships to place, situating these questions within a wider discourse around identity, coloniality, and historical, cultural and social contexts.

He has exhibited work and performed at arts organisations and festivals including: 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), National Football Museum (2019), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art(2018) and more.

Ashley is a resident on NTS Radio, where he has hosted Tough Matter, a monthly show of experimental music and sound since 2017. He has been organising Open Deck, a series of gatherings giving space to collectively listen and hold discussion 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. Ashley teaches on the BA Fine Art programme at Liverpool John Moores University where he is also currently completing an MA in Fine Art.