Ashleigh Wilson
b. 1995, N. Ireland
Artist & writer based in Belfast, primarily working with photographic material, archives, text & installation to illuminate the lingering embers of conflict in N. Irish society.
Member of FLAX Artist Studios, Gallery Assistant @ Naughton Gallery & contributor to The Pupil Sphere.
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︎ xashleighwilson@gmail.com
︎ (+31) 640 633 784
Education
Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Class of 2020
Bachelor of Design in Photography, awarded with Honours & the Academy Thesis Award.
Belfast School of Art, 2015 - 2017
B.A. Photography with video, achieving the 2017 Dean’s List & completing the
2017/18 Erasmus exchange programme.
2017/18 Erasmus exchange programme.
Queen’s University Belfast, 2014/15
B.A English & History.
Awards
Selected Exhibitions
‘The Road to Purgatory’, April 2022
Online @ The Black Box, Belfast, N.Ireland.
‘Here’s Me Here’, February 2022
FLAX Project Space, Belfast, N.Ireland.
‘Steenbergen Stipendium Award’, October/November 2021
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
‘Re-Vision Performing Arts Festival’, Spring/Summer 2021
Online Exhibition, Belfast, N.Ireland.
‘Graduate Degree Show’, September 2020
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands.
‘A Series of Contradictions’, January 2019
Billytown, The Hague, Netherlands.
‘KABK x AUNS’, March 2018
Kulturni Centar LAB, Novi Sad, Serbia.
‘UUB Photography Showcase’, February 2017
The Duncairn, Belfast, N. Ireland.
Curatorial Work
‘PhotoIreland Festival 2022: Opening the Gates’, July/August 2022
The Printworks @ Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland.
‘The Sponge, The Clay, The Brick & The Bridge’, September 2019
UNSEEN, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘In Orbit: Catalyst Arts Member’s Show’, April 2019
Curatorial Intern with Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N.Ireland.
‘Lykke Sønderkær: Connecting Body’, March 2019
Curatorial Intern with Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N.Ireland.
‘A Series of Contradictions’, January 2019
Billytown, The Hague, Netherlands.
Texts
‘The Trouble with Archives’, February 2022
Online @ The Pupil Sphere.
Artist Talks
Publications
Online @ The Pupil Sphere.
Artist Talks
‘The Hague Contemporary Art Tour’, October 2021
ART The Hague, Netherlands.
‘A Sunlit Absence’, April 2018
LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Publications
‘Of Song & Suffering’, September 2020
Self-published Thesis, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
‘The Road to Purgatory’, September 2020
Self-published Newspaper, The Hague, Netherlands.
‘Burial Ground / Tulaigh Charnáin’, January 2019
Self-published, The Hague, Netherlands.
‘Sine Magazine’, Summer 2018
Forgetful Number Collective, The Hague, Netherlands.
Stockists