Artist Interview: Ash Tower

Steph catches up with artist Ash Tower during the exhibition Studios 2022 at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE). 

They wax poetic about knowledge systems – from library shelves and scientific journals to the honor board at the RSL – which may sound like a dry subject, but Ash’s work reveals a contagious reverence for the humanness that surrounds the growing and organising of knowledge. There’s also talk of architecture, gaming, Baz Luhrmann film trivia, and coffins.

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Show Notes

• www.ash-tower.com
• Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE)
• Postcards from the Bibliopolis, 2013
• Barr Smith Library, Adelaide
• Studies of Nature, 2017
• Nature (journal)
• RSL: The Returned and Services League of Australia is a support organisation for people who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force.
• The Burning of Vision, 2021
• Baroque architecture
• Via Purifico, 2021
• Romeo + Juliet (film), 1996, Baz Luhrmann
• Final Fantasy X (game), 2001, Squaresoft
• … underneath the grove of sycamore
  that westward rooteth from the city’s side,
  so early walking did I see your son.
  (Romeo and Juliet 1.1.119-121)
• 14 Things You Didn’t Know About Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet [cosmo article]
• underneath the grove of sycamore, 2021, ink on paper. 760 x 560mm
• ACE Studio Program
• Studios 2022 exhibition at ACE