Ash Holmes

See available works on our gallery shop

EGELUNDSHOP.COM

ASH HOLMES

Ash holmes (b. 1994, Sydney) is a fourth-generation, self-taught artist based on gadigal land (sydney, nsw, australia). She has a certificate in the psychology of color, allowing her to master the sensory effects of the colors in her works. Her practice, grounded in colour psychology, explores the sensory and emotional impact of colour. through repeated marks and fluid layering of oil and acrylic, her paintings evoke memory, terrain, and shifting light. 

since 2017, holmes has exhibited widely across australia and internationally, in 2025, she exhibited at christoffer egelund gallery (copenhagen), circle contemporary gallery (united kingdom), and hake, house of art gallery (australia). she has been a finalist in the mosman art prize, lloyd rees memorial award, and premio combat prize, and her work is held in private collections across australia, new zealand, the us, europe, asia, and africa.

Holmes is currently represented internationally by christoffer egelund gallery (copenhagen) and circle contemporary gallery (uk), and within australia by hake, house of art gallery. 

EDUCATION

2020 Certificate in the psychology of colour

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025  june / solo exhibition, Natalie marie jewellery (sydney, australia)
2024  november / ‘body of water’ Hake, house of art (sydney, australia)
2024  april / curatorial + co / r.m.williams flagship exhibition program, George st, sydney, nsw, australia
2024  march / ‘could be here’,  At the above, (fitzroy, vic, australia)
2023  ‘home for a while’, Hake, house of art, (sydney, nsw, australia)
2023  ‘time will tell’, Studio gallery group (fortitude valley qld, australia)
2022  ‘shadow silhouette’, At the above (vic, australia) 
2022  ‘vision emerge’, Hake, house of art (nsw, australia)
2021  ‘dual permanence’ collaborative artworks with jamie preisz, Rainbow studio (nsw, australia)
2021 ‘eternal dawn’ Studio gallery group (waterloo, nsw, australia)
2021 ‘recollection echo’ Studio four (sydney, nsw, australia) 
2021 ‘autumn anemone’ presented by the curators (new york)
2020 ‘this must be the place’ Studio four, (sydney, nsw, australia) 
2020 ‘immerse’ Sydney road gallery, (sydney, nsw, australia)
2019 ‘light my fire’,  Silo gallery, (newport, sydney, australia)
2019 ‘clouds’, Studio four, brookvale, australia.
2018 ‘bateau’, Smith made, sydney, australia.
2017 ‘nirvelli’, Smith made, sydney, australia.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘summertime’25’, Galleri Christoffer Egelund (copenhagen, denmark)
2025 ‘subjects in motion’, Circle Contemporary Gallery (cornwall, uk)
2025 ‘sense of self’, Hake, House of Art Gallery (sydney, australia)
2025 ‘common ground’, Hake, House of Art Gallery (sydney, australia)
2024 ‘the annual winter group show’, Galleri Christoffer Egelund (copenhagen, denmark)
2023 ‘duality’, Lio Projects (toronto, canada)
2023 ‘drunk tank pink’, Hake, House of Art (sydney, nsw, australia)
2022 ‘tender contemportary’, Arcadia Street Gallery (noosa heads, qld, australia)
2022 ‘hunter & folk group show’, Rainbow Studio (nsw, australia)
2022 ‘balmy’, Hake House of Art (nsw, australia)
2022 ‘coast to coast’, Saint Cloche (nsw, australia)
2022 ‘company we keep’, Hake House of Art (nsw, australia)
2020 ‘terra australis incognito’, Saint Cloche (nsw, australia)
2020 ‘black and white show’, Sydney Road Gallery (nsw, australia)
2019 ‘mon abri’, Fortitude Valley (qld, australia)
2019 ‘modern & contemporary art show’, Art Marbella (marbella, spain)
2018 ‘belle art smart’, Paddington Sydney (nsw, australia)
2017 ‘blood stains’, Space 44 Gallery (cronulla, nsw, australia)
2016 ‘art decko’, Warringah Creative Space (sydney, nsw, australia)
2015 ‘the sauce’, Wild Things Gallery (sydney, nsw, australia)
2014 ‘modern marriage’, Gallery Byron Bay (nsw, australia)
2013 ‘the black market’, Factory 5 (sydney, nsw, australia)
2012 ‘art show’, Fix 8, Freshwater, Sydney (nsw, australia)

SELECTED AWARDS, RECIDENCIES AND OTHER 

2023 residency, 21st june – 21st july, Saruya Air Artist Residency (fujiyoshida, yamanashi, japan)
2021 finalist, Lloyd Rees Memorial Award
2020 certificate in the psychology of colour
2020 current, Studio Gallery (nsw & vic, australia)
2020 finalist, Premio Combat Prize (italy)
2019 2020, Sydney Road Gallery Seaforth (nsw, australia)
2019 finalist, Mosman Art Prize & artist q&a speaker (australia)
2019 2021, Day Gallery Blackheath (australia)
2019 2020, Van Gogh Art Gallery Madrid (spain)
2017 finalist, Belle Art Start (australia)