Major Exhibitions
2024 Fell Star — Adelaide Central Gallery
2022 Whale-Backs and Miscellaneous Forms [with Edwina Cooper] — Post Office Projects
2021 Via Purifico — Pig Melon
2021 The Burning of Vision — The Floating Goose
2018 Protocol — Cool Change Contemporary
2017 Studies of Nature — FELTspace
2015 After Alexandria — CACSA Project Space
2013 Event Horizon — Carclew Youth Arts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 the churchie — IMA, Institute of Modern Art
2022 Studios: 2022 — ACE [Adelaide Contemporary Experimental]
2022 Futures + Ruins — Adelaide Central School of Art
2014 Hatched 2014 — Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
2014 FELTmaps — Port Adelaide
Education
2019 Ph.D. by Research — School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia
2014 Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours] (First) - Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
2013 Bachelor of Visual Art - Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia
Selected Publications
2022 “Art as a Future-Generating Machine: Rheinberger's Experimentalism in Practice-Based Arts Methodologies” Leonardo, 55 (2), 2022.
2020 Adele Sliuzas and Ash Tower. ‘fine print LIVE — an IRL intervention’, performance at ACE OPEN, South Australia
2018 Ash Tower and Ingrid Hoofd. "Academic Time." In Gender: Time, edited by Karin Sellberg. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA.
2016 Ash Tower and Sasha Grbich. “Lent and Borrowed: Risk and Distributed Authorship in Tertiary Studio Research.” In ACUADS 2016: Adaptation. QUT Creative Industries Faculty.
2015 “Guernica and the Impossibility of Objects.” fine print, Issue #5: The Object
2015 ‘Incidents and Situations: Artworks as Empirical Case Studies’ - Conference paper for NEWMATS 2015, Melbourne, Victoria.
Residencies
2024 Samstag Scholar, British School at Rome, Italy
2023 Studio Kura Artist-in-Residence, Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 ACE Open Studio Residency Program
2015 SymbioticA: The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia
Awards
2023 The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2021 Weekly Fringe Award - Best Visual Art & Design
2017 FELTspace Philanthropic Fund
2016 ACUADS Postgraduate Scholarship