ASHE.

 

Born; 1974 on Boon Wurrung Country (Naarm/Melbounre, AU)

Lives & Works; Bunurong Country (Yarraville, AU) & Dhudhuroa Country (Wodonga, AU)

 

EDUCATION

2012-2015
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia

Master of Contemporary Art (Distinction).

 

1992-1996
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia

Bachelor of Visual Arts

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming Sine die - VOID_MELBOURNE, Melbourne, AU (May 2024)

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Apr 2023 This too shall pass - Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT), Hobart, AU 

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Oct 2022 et. Sequentia - KINGS artist-run, Melbourne, AU

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Sep 2022 Untitled (abrogation) - VOID_MELBOURNE, Melbourne, AU

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Apr 2022 Carport Sessions I - Tributary Projects, Canberra, AU

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Jun 2018 Flagging Opinion - MAMA, Albury, AU

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Dec 2017 BUILDING | ART ON WALLS project lead & artist for 8 month-long public art                 installation in Tallangatta, AU

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Nov 2015 Untitled (witching hour), performance/installation collaboration with Rioko Tega           & Michele Vescio - Ironside Studios, Melbourne, AU

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Nov 2012 Constructing Selves - KINGS artist-run, Melbourne, AU

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Jun 2010 Delusional Dimensions – Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, AU

 

Aug 2008 belt / flog / hit / punch / whip / tickle - Red Gallery, Melbourne, AU

 

Jul 2007 Night-Time is for the Boy who can Fly - Bus Projects, Melbourne, AU

 

Jan 2007 HABITat - Commissioned by MidSumma Festival, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, AU

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming Site School, Parallel Structures – Australian Research Council project (USyd,             UNSW, MAMA) w/ Fellows Lana Nguyen & Sebastian Henry-Jones, Bhutanese Community           Garden, Wodonga, AU (Nov 2023 & Mar 2024)

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Nov 2023 decipher you | decipher me – AlburyCity Laneway Lightbox Commission w/ BHO VÉ,             Albury, AU

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Sep 2023 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (finalist), MAPh, Melbourne, AU

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Oct 2020 20/20 – MAMA, Albury, AU

 

Jun 2019 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (finalist), Wangaratta Art Gallery, AU

 

Aug 2018 Façade – Parliament House, Canberra, AU

 

Jan 2018 Introduction – curated by Enrico Gomez, Trestle Gallery, NYC, US

 

Oct 2016 The Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change (finalist), Incinerator                   Gallery, Melbourne, AU

 

Jan 2016 Laughing Waters Road: Art, Landscape & Memory in Eltham - Montsalvat, Eltham, AU

 

Sep 2014 Bowness Prize (finalist), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, AU

 

Aug 2014 Groundwork (curator Manuel Wishnewski), Lehrter Siebsehn, Berlin, DE

         Stung (curator April Gertler), Tête, Berlin, DE

 

Sep 2013 Hither & Thither (w/ Melissa Laing), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

 

Nov 2012 that which lies beneath – The Substation Centre from Art & Culture, Melbourne, AU

         Footscray the Edge: Art in Public Places (curator; Kendal Henry)- Melbourne, AU

 

Apr 2009 Lovebites- curated by Sarah Jones – Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, AU

 

RESIDENCIES

May 2021     Art>Work – Murray Arts Inc - Oakleigh Station, Hopefield, AU

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Jan-Mar 2021 SomoS Studios – Berlin, DE (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

 

Oct-Dec 2020 Eastside International Artist Residency (ESXLA) – LA, US (Cancelled due to                 COVID-19)

 

Jul-Sep 2020 Ruangrupa (Gudskul) – Jakarta, ID (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

 

Jul-Aug 2014 PICTURE BERLIN - Berlin, DE

 

Aug-Sep 2012 Laughing Waters’ Artist in Residence Program – Nillumbik Shire Council,                   Eltham, AU

 

GRANTS/AWARDS

Dec 2021 RACV – Arts Project Grant

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Jul 2020 Regional Arts Victoria – Creative Recovery Small Grant

 

Jun 2020 Murray Arts Inc – Unlocked Micro-Grant

 

Jun 2017 Regional Arts Victoria – Cultural Project Grant

 

Mar 2017 Australia Council for the Arts – Arts Project Grant

 

May 2014 Ian Potter Cultural Trust - Emerging Artist Grant

 

Dec 2013 National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association Award

 

PRESS / PUBLICATIONS

​May 2023 Harper, Andrew. "Making the invisible, visible", Exhibition Review, TASWEEKEND,           The Mercury Tasmania, May 27-28, 2023, p19

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Apr 2023 Henry-Jones, Sebastian. “B-Theory", Catalogue Essay, 2023, p1-3

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Oct 2022 Siddal, Matt. “No longer and affair of human beings”, Exhibition essay, Emerging           Writers Program, October 20, 2023, p1-6

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Sep 2022 Siddal, Matt. “A meditation on cruelty", Catalogue essay, 2022, p1-3

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Oct 2020 Shim, Soo-Min. “Breathing Space”, Exhibition Catalogue, 2021, p10-11

Jan 2018 Ebsary, Ellen. “Controversial artwork removed from building in Tallangatta”,               Article, The Border Mail, Janurary 29, 2018, p9

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Apr 2010 Jones, Sarah. "Love Bites" Exhibition Catalogue, April 2010, p10-11

 

Jul 2007 Webb, Penny. “Review”, Visual Art, The Age, July 11, 2007, p48              

 

Jul 2007 Nelson, Robert. "Creating New Versions of Perversion", Exhibition Review, Metro,           The Age, July 07, 2007, p22

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