Ashley Holmes is an artist exploring collaborative and experimental approaches to working with sound, performance, publishing and broadcasting. His work critically examines the ways music and sound function as sites of knowledge production, collective memory, and political possibility. Holmes’ recent research investigates how Western norms of ownership and property shape the circulation of music, access to land, and relationships to place, situating these questions within a wider discourse around identity, coloniality, and historical, cultural and social contexts.

Ashley teaches on the BA Fine Art programme at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is also currently completing an MA in Fine Art, and host the Tough Matter show on NTS Radio.