CV
ABOUT
Lily Ashrowan (b. 1999) is an artist based between the rural Scottish Borders and London and these disparate geographies inform her work. She works across film, photography, writing and performance to produce work which explores themes of memory and embodiment: thinking of movement as a syntax, and language as a medium that can be treated choreographically. She draws from personal experience and histories including: rural landscapes, platonic intimacy, familial history, generational trauma, queer sex and nightlife to think through political desire and materialist histories. Following her BA in Fine Art and Art History from Goldsmiths University of London in 2022, she undertook a Junior Fellowship in Fine Art Research. She has worked for festivals including BFI London Film Festival and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. In 2024, she co-founded MEZZANINE, a project space an set of affordable artist studios in South Bermondsey which runs events, exhibitions and more.
For more information, don't hestitate to contact me by email at lily@ashrowan.com.
Or, you can find me on Vimeo or on Instagram.
ACADEMIC
Goldsmiths, University of London (2019-2022)
BA Fine Art and History of Art (First Class Honours)
Student Coordinator for the Art Department
Leeds Arts University 2017-2018
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Distinction)
CURATORIAL
Mirage, Bermondsey Project Space, June 2024
An evening of artists film, with contributions from Niyaz Saghari, George Findlay Ramsey, Daniel & Clara, Kamila Kuc, Kym McDaniels and Autojector
Cut From The Same Cloth, Bermondsey Project Space, March 2024
Group show with contributions from Crimson Downing Martin, Joshua Clague, Bethany Husband, Hamish Halley and Andy Rhys Williams
A Cyborgs Search for Meaning, Safehouse 1, London, August 2019
Group Show, co-curated with Emily Webb, and featuring contributions from the Scottish Borders Moving Image makers Collective, Ezra Allen, Emma McAndrew D'Souza, Emmally Parsons, Ella Joy Nelson and more.
EXHIBITIONS/RESIDENCIES/PUBLICATIONS
2024
Flesh, AMP Gallery Peckham
Untitled (2023 - 2024) Photographs
Lidido and Other Flows (2024) Performance
Elevation Film Festival, Maker Heights, Cornwall
Evocation(2024) Experimental Short Film made in collaboration with Richard Ashrowan
Fieldnotes Evening School Collaborative Publication
The Hysterical Gearswitch(2024) For guerilla distribution, free circulation and misinterpretation. Access the text Here.
Cut From The Same Cloth, Bermondsey Project Space
Postbox(2024) Experimental Short Film
Goldsmiths, University of London
Tai a Mynyddoedd'(2024) Presentation of film and research collaboration with Crimson Downing Martin
Experiments in Cinema, New Mexico, USA
Evocation(2024) Experimental Short Film made in collaboration with Richard Ashrowan
Fisura Festival de Cine Independiente, Mexico City
Evocation(2024) Experimental Short Film made in collaboration with Richard Ashrowan
Cosmic Rays Film Festival, North Carolina, USA
Evocation(2024) Experimental Short Film made in collaboration with Richard Ashrowan
Cinaesthesia, Alternate Sensory Reality, Manor Street Galleries, Plymouth, UK
Evocation(2024) Experimental Short Film made in collaboration with Richard Ashrowan
2023
The Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Show 2023
Exposure (2022) Experimental Short Film
Camera Escura at Tab Lab, Lisbon, Portugal
Exposure (2022) Experimental Short Film
2022
The Great Tapestry of Scotland Gala Day, September
Screening as part of Moving Images Cine-Caravan
Peter Scott (2019) Experimental Short Film
Goldsmiths Undergraduate Degree show: Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2022
Oscillations (2022) Installation with single channel video with timed surround sound, sculptural and photographic wall mounted elements
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scottish Borders, May 2022
Empathy Machine (2022) Experimental Short Film as part of Moving Images Programme, screening of work by members of the Scottish Borders Moving Image Makers Collective
Horizons Photography Group Show
ArtHub Deptford, May 2022
Spectres 3 & 4 (2021, 2022) Darkroom Photographic Prints
With Whom We Mutually Communicate? Group Show
Copeland Gallery, Peckham, May 2022
Peter Scott (2019) Experimental Short Film
Sideways (2021) Experimental Short Film
Exposure (2022) Experimental Short Film
Ooze Group Show
Laurie Grove Baths, New Cross, London, February 2022
Armchair Rave Script (2022)
Untitled (2021) Darkroom Photographic Prints
2021
Aya Films, Online Screening at part of Unrest of Elsewhere Programme, Sept 2021
Sideways (2021) Experimental Short Film
Society Of Scottish Artists, Online Screening at part of A Space Between Programme, August 2021
Sideways (2021) Experimental Short Film
Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival, Ontario, March 2021
Peter Scott (2019) Experimental Short Film
2020
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston, January 2020
Rankleburn (2019)
Passage (2019) Performer credit on Experimental Short Film Directed by Richard Ashrowan
MIA Screens, Moving Image Arts Online platform, April 2020
Rankleburn (2019) with introduction by the artist
https://movingimageartists.co.uk/2020/04/17/mia-screens-lily-ashrowan/
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scottish Borders, 2020
Peter Scott (2019) Experimental Short Film as part of Pastime Present Tense Programme
2019
Airds Bay Residency: No Technology with Lucy Gray, August 2019
Darkroom Festival, Deptford X, London, September 2019
Rankleburn (2019) Experimental Short Film
A Cyborgs Search for Meaning, Safehouse 1, London
I started frantically collecting houseplants (2019) Installation including text printed onto fabric and houseplants.
Society Of Scottish Artists, Visual Arts Scotland Open Exhibition
Edinburgh National Galleries, December 2019
Passage (2019) Performer credit on Experimental Short Film Directed by Richard Ashrowan
Get Liminal Volume 1, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
Balance and Precarity (2019) Installation including projected video work.
The Glasgow School of Art, Sculpture and Environmental Art Interim Show, February
Lecture: On Space (2019) Video and Live performance including spoken theory, anecdote and dance.
2018
Flim Flam: Another Fine Mess, Edinburgh Arts Festival
Performance work and video installation
OTHER
Member of the Moving Image Makers Collective, Scottish Borders
Member of the Moving Image Salon, Moving Image Artists, Film and Video Umberella (2019-2020)
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