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 tho

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

By Grace Slaven, visual artist and PhD candidate To transform takes metamorphosis. It cannot be learnt, only experienced . Kelsey Ashe...

Essay by Sandra Harben; Nyoongar yorga and traditional owner of the Whadjuk region & Dr. Kelsey Ashe Published 2022 CROSSINGS BILYA BIDI;...

Exhibition duration from 1st February to 30th March at ECU Galleries; Spectrum Project Space Curated by Dr. Harrison See with support...

Sandra Harben, Kelsey Ashe, 2022. 'Wam Wardanup doyntj doyntj koorliny' (Strangers on the Shore going along together). Large Scale Screen...

This article appeared in The Debutante: Feminist Surrealist Odysseys (Issue 02) in October 2020. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland UK. Image:...

'Something is happening in Australian Art today. We are witnessing the resurgence of ideas that took root centuries ago – a return to passion in art; a return to atmosphere and awe. Historians called it Romanticism; a disposition for melancholic yearning, for communion with nature, for the sublime. Australian artists, in countless numbers, are engaging with these themes again today….’. Simon Gregg, 2011, ‘The New Romantics, Darkness and Light in Australian Art’. Moon over Ind

FROM THE ARTIST - REGARDING THE FILM - 'PEARLS AND BLACKBIRDS' I wish to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise the continuing connection to land, coast and sea through enduring culture. I pay my respect to their people and Elders past, present and emerging. This artwork is a meditation on immense beauty and pain, humanity and redemption. It provokes difficult, yet transformative conversation by adding expressive voices to this sign

This article appeared in ARTISTS PROFILE magazine: https://www.artistprofile.com.au/kelsey-ashe/ Australian artist Kelsey Ashe’s new film...

Imaginary Aesthetic Territories – My Antipodean Floating World (An excerpt from a chapter in my Phd where I discuss my approach to...

[Excerpt – Imaginary Aesthetic Territories, 2018. PhD Thesis] I examine the source of my cross-cultural fascination, namely, traditional...