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About me

Andy Ash is an artist, researcher, and educator whose practice operates within an expanded field of sculpture, encompassing performance, sound, film, print, text, and installation. Rather than producing discrete objects, he approaches sculpture as a set of spatial, temporal, and relational conditions that unfold through process and experience. His work emerges through actions such as walking, listening, recording, and dialogue, positioning art as a form of embodied research.
Walking is central to Ash’s methodology, functioning as both physical act and conceptual framework. Through movement across landscapes such as the South Downs and Sussex coast in the UK, he engages with place as a dynamic, lived experience. These encounters are translated into works that act as traces of presence—marking the relationship between body, environment, and time.
Sound plays an increasingly significant role in this enquiry. Through field recordings, Ash captures the subtle, often overlooked elements that shape our perception of place, from birdsong and water to industrial rhythms. These recordings operate not as neutral documents but as extensions of embodied listening, foregrounding the phenomenological experience of landscape.
Collaboration and transdisciplinary exchange underpin his practice, extending it beyond the studio into socially engaged and pedagogical contexts. As an educator, his work bridges making and teaching, fostering dialogue and shared knowledge.
Across diverse media, Ash’s work redefines sculpture as an open, process-led practice—one that unfolds through movement, attention, and the ongoing negotiation between self, place, and others.