ASH ALLDREAD
Azithromycin, is an on-going project and sculptural work, that started in 2025 and continues to physically grow, changing in size and shape for the foreseeable future, as long as Ash is on this medication. Azithromycin is an oral antibiotic that he has taken since he was sixteen years of age, and seeks to explore this narrative from this time frame to current, from an Ontological perspective.
This work explores the repetition of medicating every day and the durational aspects this brings within the existence of the work, and an entanglement in Ash’s existence and survival through modern medicine.
Latex is the chosen material for this work for its bodily qualities, relating to Ash's lived corporeal complexities. This material is ephemeral and has a fragility to it, bringing another dimension of time and decay into the fold.
Lung function
Digital print
(on-going project)
Size A2
2025
Lung function is an on-going project and series.
A process captured through experimental digital printing processes. Formulating a reflection of intension of the lucidity of the (CF) Cystic Fibrosis condition. This fluctuation of bodily existence never sits still in time. The ink process in this work is a medium intuitively experimented with and inspired by the scarring of the lungs and resilience they can withstand.
This work intends to be made and displayed in a variety of ways, subject to funding opportunities.
Clinic 4, Room 4
Text work
2025
Upcoming exhibition TBC
Clinic 4, Room 4; is a work that exists as a poem and text work. Inspired by Ash's lived experiences of a patient in regular clinical environments. These experiences are always in a state-of-flux, and in-turn so is the artwork. Ash explores the making of sense, and how writing can be a vessel to do this, through the complexities of the psychological and philosophical understanding of (lived-existence).
This work intends to be made and displayed in a variety of ways, subject to funding opportunities.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ash Alldread is a multidisciplinary artist drawing from the complexity of his lived-experiences with cystic fibrosis. Deciphering the entanglements of the corporeal relationship with existence through a philosophical lens and artistic curiosity. Ash's practice-led research draws on the medical, mortality and time to name a few.
BIOGRAPHY
Exhibitions
Unmanifested, Glena Art STUDIO, London, 2026
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, zine - group exhibition - (Online & physical)
Studio/Associate member:
Two queens, Leicester - Associate member - 2026 (current)
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)
CONTACT/FIND
https://www.instagram.com/ashalldreadart/
For more writings please click:
https://ashalldread.substack.com
Copyrights 2026 - Ash Alldread
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