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Chloe Ashley, exhibition view showing dyed silver gelatin photograph, ‘Building, Developing, Materialising’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, June 2016.
Event
Chloe Ashley: The Building as Material Residency
16 Aug 2016 – 13 Nov 2016
Event times
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm; Sundays 12noon - 4pm. Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Gallery Square
- Walsall, WS2 8LG
- Walsall
- WS2 8LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Walsall
Twenty years ago, London-based architects Caruso St John were selected to design a new gallery for Walsall after winning a high profile international competition.
About
Since opening in 2000, the resulting 37-metre-high building, clad in terracotta tiles and punctuated by large windows, has been a source of inspiration for artists.
In June 2016, The New Art Gallery Walsall invited applications from artists based in the West Midlands for residency proposals in response to the theme: ‘The Building as Material.’ Following this open call, artist Chloe Ashley has been selected to develop a new body of work from the Gallery’s 1st Floor Artists’ Studio, taking inspiration from the forms and materials that identify the building.
Ashley works with analogue photography and her practice is often driven by a response to site. She will use her residency to photographically respond to the Gallery architecture, utilising a 35mm film camera to produce silver gelatin prints, for which she will design a variety of experimental display structures. These structures will utilise the raw materials of The New Art Gallery Walsall building (concrete, leather, Douglas fir, walnut, terracotta, stainless steel) and reference the signature forms and views that identify the Gallery architecture.
Chloe Ashley studied Fine Art at Loughborough University from 2010-13. She will begin a two-year Masters programme in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. Ashley lives in Lichfield and works from her darkroom space at AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.
