Brett Ashby
Biography
Brett Ashby is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, director and author from Naarm, Australia. His boundless chameleon artistry across multimedia visual art, performative public art, and sound has framed Ashby as an prodigious figure in the experimental film/ art world.
Ashby is recognisable for his unique methods of practice employing a skateboard as a tool to paint stemming from his public art exhibition defacing his van on Bondi Beach to employing famous faces into his aura painting practice including Sarah McLeod, Mick Harvey, Coolio, Michael Jackson, and Barack Obama (which is displayed in the White House). Along with participating in community public art commissions and engaging in residency programs with institutions including Pentridge Prison, Ashby has contributed to the artistic landscape through being the first Australian to exhibit at the world’s largest public art festival, Cube Art Fair in both Miami (Art Basel) and New York (Frieze Art), where he made groundbreaking strides in the NFT sphere with works Frequency and Always Neo, exhibited at Venezia Biennale, in 2022, Crypto Art Island, Gibraltar, The Other Art Fair in London, Kunst Museum, Liechtenstein, and was an award recipient in the Lift-Off Film Festival in Tokyo and Best Experimental Film, Moscow Russia International Film Festival a
Ashby is recognisable for his unique methods of practice employing a skateboard as a tool to paint stemming from his public art exhibition defacing his van on Bondi Beach to employing famous faces into his aura painting practice including Sarah McLeod, Mick Harvey, Coolio, Michael Jackson, and Barack Obama (which is displayed in the White House). Along with participating in community public art commissions and engaging in residency programs with institutions including Pentridge Prison, Ashby has contributed to the artistic landscape through being the first Australian to exhibit at the world’s largest public art festival, Cube Art Fair in both Miami (Art Basel) and New York (Frieze Art), where he made groundbreaking strides in the NFT sphere with works Frequency and Always Neo, exhibited at Venezia Biennale, in 2022, Crypto Art Island, Gibraltar, The Other Art Fair in London, Kunst Museum, Liechtenstein, and was an award recipient in the Lift-Off Film Festival in Tokyo and Best Experimental Film, Moscow Russia International Film Festival a
