@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 social, historical and relational knowledges and iterations of Dub, Blues and Grime music. Recent projects and performances have explored melancholic spaces between these genres and the culture of bootlegs, riddims, versions and covers 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

Upcoming
2024 Sounds from the Ground w Nkisi, KMRU, SADACCA G Mill, Sheffield (16 May) Tickets >
2024 Imagining Otherwise, group exhibition at Primary, Nottingham (07 June)
2024 Jazz on the Park Festival, DJ set with BossDADDY, Weston Park, Sheffield (15 June) Tickets >

Current
2024 Skylarking, Arts Catalyst, Sheffield (21 Feb - 18 May)

Selected Exhibitions, projects & performance
2024 Performance at Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen
2023 In The Offing, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2023 On Listening, Lothringer 13, Munich
2023 Sonic Lecture, Metro 54, Amsterdam
2023 Decaying Tail of a Sound, with Ratiba Ayadi & Seigfried Komidashi, Jerwood Arts x FACT Liverpool fellowship
2022 Crucial, performance at Auto Italia South East
2022 We Came The Long Way, And I Thought You Knew, QUAD Derby (solo)
2022 Trust Melody, Humber Street Gallery (solo)
2022, 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 and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange
2021 Even Myself Knows That Too (Journal Dub) performance at FRIEZE Live, London
2021 Distend, solo exhibition commissioned for Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds Art Gallery (solo)
2021 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
2019 Double 6, performance with R.I.P. Germain at courtroom of Leeds Town Hall, commissioned by Poor Image Projects, Leeds
2019 Football is Art, National Football Museum, Manchester
2018 Cry Then Win Then Loose Reaction, Two Queens, Leicester (solo)
2018, Survey, Jerwood Arts; G39, Cardiff; The Bluecoat, Liverpool; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2018 …And Their Tooth, Finest Gold, curated by Deborah Joyce Holman, Les Urbaines, Lausanne
2018 Collective Failure, J Hammond Projects, London
2018 The Teachers, with Haich Per Na at Peak, London
2017 Money Cyant Fool Them Again, 1.1, Basel (solo)
2017 Shape Up, Losers Gym, Nottingham (solo)
2017 Starless Midnight, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2017 Medieval City One, Two Queens, Leicester
2016 A British Art Show, curated by Joseph Buckley, Meyohas, New York
2016 A Small Group Show of British and American Artists, Space Space, Tokyo