See Hear, nearly Saw Heard!

16 August 2024

It is almost over. The exhibition is running well with a good trickle of visitors, it finishes on Saturday, August 31st. The plants are still alive and provided a bowl of gallery-grown tomatoes for the artist talk event. This was really well attended and was accompanied by a lunch provided by the Artcore cafe. Thanks, […]

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Today’s the Day

12 July 2024

The exhibition is today! It is ready apart from the plants and have they caused me some trouble. However, I am learning to accept their idiosyncrasies and will take them to the gallery this morning. I don’t think we will be eating beans in the gallery, it was a nice idea, might manage a tomato. […]

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Nearly there……..where’s there?

9 July 2024

Blogs get less as work gets more! We have a formal invite and it looks good. Last week was a whirl of activity and now I am on the final stretch. The last 5 days have been spent in London at the Crisp sound conference at UAL and what a lot I have learnt. In […]

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A plan

23 June 2024

I have a plan, and a schedule, is this really me talking? I think I am pretty organised generally but this timetabling is something else! And it gets crossed off when it’s done. Continuing my thoughts linking notions of time which probably began on the documented journey, to a shop window in Osnabrück and an […]

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Back to Derby

17 June 2024

Dear Passengers open studio clip Dear Passengers from Lange Nacht open studio Back in Derby with lots of work to do. Only 4 weeks to the exhibition opening, counting this week, install week and a week when I am going to the sound conference in London. I need to get a move on! I now have […]

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Building Bridges 2024 – Work In Progress

13 June 2024
Building Bridges 2024 – Work In Progress

Hi Folks, Currently editing the work created in Osnabrück, Germany..  Here’s a glimpse! Excited to present the rest at our Artcore exhibition in the coming weeks! Enjoy Ashley ✌️ #ExperimetalFilm #MovingImage #LOAF

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After the Night Before

9 June 2024

What a brilliant night at Lange Nacht open studios with visitors still arriving at midnight. At least 300 visitors expected and I think that was achieved. Film of Echoes of the Beach attached as shown in M82, Osnabrück with drawing by Chris Wright and sound responses by Anke Haun, Ashley Morris and Chris Wright. It […]

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Sounds Good

7 June 2024

A short blog today! I am trying to get  work finished for the Open Studios tomorrow. However, yesterday I met an old friend, singer Anke Haun, who I know from sound conferences and only lives an hour away by train.  She remarked that an old pastel drawing in my sketchbook of a French beach looked […]

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BUILDING BRIDGES 2024 Derby to Osnabruck

4 June 2024
BUILDING BRIDGES 2024  Derby to Osnabruck

My first post!! Yay!! Hello Artcore and the peeps reading this!! A smidge about me.. My name is Ashley Morris.. I am a neurodivergent artist, film director, collaborator and educator hailing from Derbyshire! More of my work here http://www.orateash.co.uk or follow me on my instagram @orateash or drop me a email Hello@orateash.co.uk The first few days […]

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What can I do here that I can’t do anywhere else?

4 June 2024

          A page from my sketchbook just to remind myself why I am here, not there! Doing my tried and tested routine stuff has helped me into the making mode straight away. I now need to break away, develop new things. However, the routine also gets me ready for the day. So, […]

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Building Bridges Day 2

1 June 2024

It is only day 2 and I am so happy to be here. I spent the train journey drawing and recording especially at the border crossings.  Just finished a text piece on the reverse of the drawing which is about 7 metres long. This  may accompany the sound work created from the journey recordings.  The drawing […]

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“The Silence of Growing Things” Residency in Bengaluru, India

8 November 2023
“The Silence of Growing Things” Residency in Bengaluru, India

Exciting Update! After reviewing applications from 70 artists across the UK, we’re pleased to introduce the finalists for “The Silence of Growing Things” residency in Bengaluru, India, hosted by Artcore. Our finalists are Freya Gabie and Arjuna Keshvani-Ham. Freya Gabie, a sculpture graduate from Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, is known […]

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