Artist Statement

My practice transforms the event of writing into performance, video and collage and other things that make it difficult to produce readings. These interconnected forms assemble found and constructed images as language experiments using poetic explorations of symmetry, paragrammatic readings and interruption. Underpinned by a state of loss or discomfort my work uses notating, obscuring and repeating, arranging, organising and deconstructing, tasks, images and texts. Considering the action of making as a meeting and arrangement of relationships between bodies, objects and words.

I'm interested in things that rhyme (linguistically and visually), appropriation, the political philosophy of anarchism and autobiographical codes.

Recent projects include: XTC, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London; Overlap/AND Festival, Static Gallery Liverpool; SculpturalTextsIgnition, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn NYC; Hunter Gatherer, PSL Project Space Leeds; Proximity Effect, Plymouth Arts Center; Spill Festival, London; ArtEvict, ]Performance S p a c e[ London; Whippit 4, Elevator Gallery London; Red Ape at In The Flesh, Plymouth Arts Center; Live Art Falmouth, Cornwall.

In 2010 I co-founded O U I Performance with artist Victoria Gray and together we programme contemporary time-based performance in York, North Yorkshire.

I am currently Visiting Lecturer in Performance within the Faculty of Arts, York St John University, York, UK
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nathan.ashley[@]gmail.com

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Selected Press / Reviews

Nathan Walker Interview by Nathan Jones (2011), Published online at Mercy, September 2011

Hunter Gatherer Review by Lara Eggleton (2011) Published in A-N Magazine July / August 2011

The Guardian Online 'This weeks new exhibitions' inc. Hunter Gatherer, Leeds. (May 2011) by Robert Clark

These are the Motions of a Performance that is Collage and is also Writing by Victoria Gray (2011)

Asking For It by Joanna Loveday (2009)

Review of Plant at Whippit Four by Mark Greenwood (2008)

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