CURRICULUM VITAE
ASHE.
Born; 1974 on Boon Wurrung Country (Melbourne, Australia)
Lives & Works on Dhudhuroa Country (Wodonga, Australia)
EDUCATION
2012-2015
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
Master of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours).
1992-1996
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Visual Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Apr 2023 This too shall pass - Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT), Hobart, AU
Oct 2022 et. Sequentia - KINGS artist-run, Melbourne, AU
Sep 2022 Untitled (abrogation) - VOID_MELBOURNE, Melbourne, AU
Apr 2022 Carport Sessions I - Tributary Projects, Canberra, AU
Jun 2018 Flagging Opinion - MAMA, Albury, AU
Dec 2017 BUILDING | ART ON WALLS project lead & artist for 8 month-long public art installation in Tallangatta, AU
Nov 2015 Untitled (witching hour), performance/installation collaboration with Rioko Tega & Michele Vescio - Ironside Studios, Melbourne, AU
Nov 2012 Constructing Selves - KINGS artist-run, Melbourne, AU
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
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
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
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
This is the catalogue for Love Bites an exhibition held at the Plimsoll Gallery 17 April - 8 May 2009. Exhibiting artists include Kate Just, Catherine Bell, Danica Chappell, Ashe (Ashlee Laing), Kel Glaister, Neil Haddon, Trudi Brinckman. Curated by Sarah Jones
Creating New Versions of Perversion
Robert Nelson's review of my installation - Night time is for the boy who can fly
The Age, July 11 2007