Ashley Holmes
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: A.T.Holmes@ljmu.ac.uk
Ashley Holmes is a multi-disciplinary artist working with sound, drawing and collaborative projects. His work is centred around social and historical relational knowledges of Black music, writing and performance that emerge in different local contexts. Ashley has presented work, performed and facilitated workshops at arts institutions and festivals including V&A Museum London (2024); Arts Catalyst (2024);, Turner Contemporary (2023); Horst Arts & Music Festival (2023); FACT Liverpool (2022); and Frieze London (2021)
He teaches on the BA Fine Art programme across various modules supporting first, second and third year students.
Degrees
2013, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, BA Fine Art
Academic appointments
Visiting Lecturer, MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, 2019 - 2020
Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, 2018 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer, BA Contemporary Art & Illustration, University of Huddersfield, 2017 - 2020
Composition
Holmes A. 2023. Tough Matter - broadcast on NTS Radio Publisher Url
Holmes A. 2022. Pending, Still (Sync n Feeling Dub) - Sound Commission for consent not to be a single being: Worlding Through the Caribbean Symposium by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, UAL Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange Publisher Url
Holmes A. 2021. REWORKS / PDA - broadcast for Radio Arts Catalyst Residency, Arts Catalyst Publisher Url
Exhibition
Holmes A. Decaying Tail of a Sound - Jerwood Arts x FACT Fellowship, FACT Liverpool Publisher Url
Holmes A. Trust Melody - solo exhibition at Humber Street Gallery, Hull Publisher Url
Holmes A. Distend - commission for Yorkshire Sculpture International at Leeds Art Gallery Publisher Url
Holmes A. A Free Moment - solo exhibition at FUTURA, Prague Author Url
Holmes A. away, completely: denigrate - group exhibition at Narrative Projects, London Publisher Url
Holmes A. On Listening Publisher Url
Performance
Holmes A. Crucial - Performance at Auto Italia South East, London Publisher Url
Holmes A. Even Myself Knows That Too (Journal Dub) - FREIZE Live, Raven Row, London Publisher Url
Fellowships:
Jerwood Arts x FACT Liverpool Fellowship, Jerwood Arts, FACT Liverpool, https://www.fact.co.uk/jerwood-arts-fact-fellowship. 2022