Ashley Holmes is an American artist based in Belfast. She studied at the Massachusetts College Of Art (BFA), 1990, and completed an MA at the Chelsea College Of Art, London, 1995. She also completed an MFA at the University Of Colorado, Boulder, 1998.

Solo Exhibitions

2004 All is Fair in Love and War, Down Arts centre, Downpatrick

2003 Barbie and Ken Melt Down, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

Group Exhibitions

Open EV+A 2007

Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

2004 Work in Progress

The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

The Philosopher's Stone

Array Studios, Belfast

Sefton Open

Selected Exhibition, Liverpool, UK

Puccini's Protagonists

Commission for Opera Fringe

Downpatrick, N. Ireland

"The Down Arts Centre commissioned an innovative new visual art exhibition as part of the 2003 Opera Fringe Festival. Puccini's Protagonists, created by American artist Ashley Holmes, is an exhibition made up of dolls in dioramas with each scene being an interpretation of one of Puccini's operas -Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot etc."

e ashleyholmes@arraystudios.co.uk