@ashleyholmes__

Ashley Holmes is an artist, DJ and broadcaster working with sound and collaborative projects to produce work for exhibitions, performance and radio. His practice is centred around the embodied knowledges of social and historical elements of Dub, Blues and Grime music, examining relationships between these genres and the multiple diasporic locations that emerge in different local contexts and practices to amplify frequencies, voice and memory.

Ashley hosts Tough Matter, a monthly show on NTS Radio and is a resident on Mondo Radio and at No Bounds Festival, Sheffield. He facilitates Open Deck, a series of gatherings started in 2018, giving space to collectively listen and hold discursive space around relationships to music, sound, memory and oral histories. He is a lecturer in Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Bandcamp
Mondo Radio
No Bounds Festival residency 2023-24
Tough Matter on NTS Radio

For bookings and work inquiries please get in touch

Selected Exhibitions, projects & performance


Current
2024 Imagining Otherwise, group exhibition at Primary, Nottingham (07 June)

2024
Skylarking, Arts Catalyst, Sheffield
Performance at Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen

2023
In The Offing, Turner Contemporary, Margate
On Listening, Lothringer 13, Munich
Sonic Lecture, Metro 54, Amsterdam
Decaying Tail of a Sound, with Ratiba Ayadi & Seigfried Komidashi, Jerwood Arts x FACT Liverpool fellowship

2022
Crucial, performance at Auto Italia South East
We Came The Long Way, And I Thought You Knew, QUAD Derby (solo)
Trust Melody, Humber Street Gallery (solo)
Callings From The Deep, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna

2021
Pending, Still (Sync n Feeling Dub)
commission for consent not to be a single being: Worlding Through the Caribbean by UAL Transnational & Transcultural Arts & Culture Exchange
Even Myself Knows That Too (Journal Dub) performance at FRIEZE Live, London
Distend, solo exhibition commissioned for Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds Art Gallery (solo)
Reworks/PDA, Radio Arts Catalyst residency

2020
A Free Moment, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (solo)

2019
away, completely: denigrate, group exhibition curated by Languid Hands, Narrative Projects, London
Double 6, performance with R.I.P. Germain at courtroom of Leeds Town Hall, commissioned by Poor Image Projects, Leeds
Football is Art, National Football Museum, Manchester

2018
Cry Then Win Then Loose Reaction, Two Queens, Leicester (solo)
Survey, Jerwood Arts; G39, Cardiff; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
…And Their Tooth, Finest Gold, curated by Deborah Joyce Holman, Les Urbaines, Lausanne
Collective Failure, J Hammond Projects, London
The Teachers, with Haich Per Na at Peak, London

2017
Money Cyant Fool Them Again, 1.1, Basel (solo)
Shape Up, Losers Gym, Nottingham (solo)
Starless Midnight, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Medieval City One, Two Queens, Leicester

2016
A British Art Show, curated by Joseph Buckley, Meyohas, New York
A Small Group Show of British and American Artists, Space Space, Tokyo