
Artist statement
Ash Alldread is a multidisciplinary artist working in, sculpture, drawing, and digital photography. Ash draws from the complexity of his lived experiences, deciphering the entanglements of the human body. His research explores medical contexts and ontological perspectives through philosophical curiosity.
Cystic Fibrosis is part of Ash’s daily life. He seeks to unravel the complexity of his past, present and future experiences. These silent and aggressive experiences invoke trauma, decay, preservation, mortality and time.
BIOGRAPHY
Exhibitions
Pathos, Indra gallery, London, spira9art, 2025
Drum Skin, Surface Gallery, Nottingham – 2019
Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Studio Artist group show: 2018 & 2019
Four Letter Word, Group exhibition, Birmingham - 2012
Break
Health reasons: 2020-25
Upcoming exhibitions:
like - group exhibition - zine
Studio holder
Primary Arts Organisation, Nottingham – 2019-20
Backlit Gallery, Nottingham - Associate member – 2018-19
Surface Gallery, Nottingham – 2017-19
Education
Masters Radical Media Arts Philosophy - 2014-17 – (BCU)
BA Fine Art - 2011-14 – Birmingham City University (BCU)

