Major Exhibitions

2022 Whale-Backs and Miscellaneous Forms [with Edwina Cooper] — Post Office Projects, South Australia

2021 Via Purifico — Pig Melon, Western Australia

2021 The Burning of Vision — The Floating Goose, South Australia

2018 Protocol — Cool Change Contemporary, Western Australia

2017 Studies of Nature — FELTspace, South Australia

2015 After Alexandria — CACSA Project Space, South Australia

2013 Event Horizon — Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 the churchie — IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Queensland

2022 Studios: 2022 — ACE, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, South Australia

2022 Futures + Ruins — Adelaide Central School of Art, South Australia

2014 Hatched 2014 — Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia

2014 FELTmaps — Port Adelaide, South Australia

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

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.

2015 ‘Laboratory Life Revisited’ — Conference paper for Neolife SLSA, Perth, Western Australia

2014-19 Assorted catalogue essays

Residencies

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

2021 Weekly Fringe Award - Best Visual Art & Design

2017 FELTspace Philanthropic Fund

2016 ACUADS Postgraduate Scholarship

2014 Tracey Whiting Award for most Outstanding Graduate Student [Hons]

2013 James Martin Award for most Outstanding Graduate Student [BVA]

2013 Carclew Youth Arts Project and Development Grant