Dr. Kelsey Ashe

I'm thrilled to have my essay The Edge of the World published in a 6 page arts feature, in the current issue of Island magazine; a premium Australian literary magazine for over 40 years. Written around my return to Lutruwita/Tasmania for the 2026 Hadley’s Art Prize, the essay reaches back into my childhood in the remote Tarkine/Takayna rainforest and traces some of the threads that have followed me ever since — landscape and belonging, Australian Gothic, yūgen, Surrealism, memory, intuition,...

Ashe, K. (2025). The Mantic Stain of Experience: Surrealist Automatism and the Irreproducible. M/C Journal Forthcoming 2026. Double Blind Peer Reviewed Academic Media/Culture Journal. Introduction: Experience, Ritual, and Irreproducibility in a Post-AI Image Culture The Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century positioned ‘irrational’ experience, such as intuitive or unconscious knowledge at the core of creative innovation. To bypass the constraints of rational thought, artists...

NAZARRI Anna, The Awakening, 2022-2025. Alumalux Print 60 x 91cm Exhibition Essay for: The Foreign Within WALLACE GALLERY, PERTH WA...