Ashley Holmes

In 1960 my family emigrated from UK to New Zealand as '£10 Poms'. Growing up in Aotearoa gave me an appreciation of the natural world and our responsibilities as cohabitants. This is a regular theme for my creative practise. These days this Pommie-Kiwi-Aussie enjoys the good life in tropical Australia, teaching at a university and sharing art at every opportunity.
I have always been an experimental visual artist working across diverse media from traditional drawing and painting to time-based and interactive work.
Currently in Saatchi Art I present a series of promiscuous blooms - extreme botanicals.
Also in this collection are my favourites from an ongoing series of non-objective images created using unusual experimental photomedia techniques.
They are offered as limited edition digital prints on art paper. The earliest of them is from 2010 - one of many studies for a commission of 24 archtictural-scale images for a hospital public art project. The most recent is from my garden in January 2023.
Each expresses my rapture for sublime spectre and vibrant colour.

Doctor of Philosophy - Visual Arts Studio Practice (University of South Australia) 2005.
Bachelor of Arts - Fine Arts (South Australian School of Art) 1982.

- Call of the Running Tide (group exhibition), Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns, 2021.
- Symbionce (group exhibition), Gallery 31, CQUniversity Australia, Mackay campus, 2020.
- Call of the Running Tide (inaugural Environmental Art Festival), Port Douglas Community Centre, 2019.
- Emergence (group exhibition), La Luna Youth Arts (toured regional North Queensland galleries), 2016.
- Art and Future: Energy, Climate, Cultures (juried group exhibition), Dunedin School of Art, New Zealand, 2016.
- Affinity: lens-based and new media art by Ashley Holmes (solo exhibition), Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, CQUniversity Australia, Ooralea campus, 2011.
- Waters’ Edge - Creating Environments, Toured: Cairns Regional Gallery, Perc Tuck Gallery and Artspace Mackay, 2008.
- Pacific Edge: contemporary art from coastal Queensland (invited survey exhibition), Artspace Mackay, 2006.