Artist CV

(b 1991GB. Lives and works in Brighton)

Ashley Sheekey's work is largely inspired by urban landscape, and the public and private spaces we occupy within it. Her work seeks to show “the strangeness of the built environment,” particularly when something seems out of place or surprising. Sheekey says it is that strangeness that she considers worth documenting. “I'm particularly interested in the presence of rules and disruptive visual instructions; unending development that alters formerly familiar surroundings; the blurred, delicate boundaries between public and private space; desire for ownership or control, and anonymous territorial acts,” says Sheekey. She presents these ideas through drawing, writing, and digital collage, working mainly from memory. The results present a close look at the elements that inform and influence human behavior in urban environments.

2019

Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery & Mall Galleries, Milford Haven & London

No  Wall Space Volume 2 — Off the Walls, Phoenix Brighton 

2018

Connection, Wells Maltings, Norfolk 

2017

Before Words, MA Fine Art Graduate Show, University of Brighton 

2016

MA Fine Art, MA Interim Show, University of Brighton 

2014

PAUSE [01], Kraak Gallery, Manchester

Falmouth Fine Art Degree Show, Falmouth University 

2013

Interim, The Fish Factory, Falmouth

The Dark Rooms (Parameters of the Dark), Passmore Edwards Building, Helston 

2019

Createspace Wales, Artist in Residence, Ferwig, Wales 

2019

Searching for Smooth Space (extract), ORLA (physical publication) 

2017

Sheekey, A. (2017) ‘The Perfect Space’, Plinth, 31 March. Available at: Plinth 

2013

‘The Dark Rooms, South West Cornwall’. Available at: Aesthetica Magazine  

2015-2017

BA (Hons), Falmouth University, First Class 

2011-2014

MA Fine Art, University of Brighton, Distinction