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Artist, researcher & educator Associate Professor (UCL) lives Brighton (Red Herring Studio)
MRSS, FNSEAD, FHEA
Sculpture | Performance Art

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Andy Ash in collaboration with Nina
Garstang
‘Again And Again: Revisited’ (2026)
(Sculpture as Performance)
In May during the Brighton Festival ‘Again And Again’ was performed at The Adelaide Salon Exhibition ‘Act O’ at the Brighton Dome and later at The Adelaide salon a The Royal Pavilion Art Gala. It was a live sculpture pertormance centred on collaboration, tension, and repeated negotiation. Two bodies are bound together by stretch bands, creating a shifting physical connection that resists and responds to every movement.
Through walking, pulling, yielding, and returning, we tested the give and take between us - a continuous exchange of force, balance, and intention. On this occasion the work explored how relationships are shaped through physical, social, and spatial dynamics.
Each action becomes a form of dialogue, where movement replaces language and tension reveals the complexities of cooperation, resistance, trust, and control. Repetition is central: through attempting, adjusting, and trying again, the performance examines limits, shared capacity, and the ettort required to move together. As a sculptural duet, Again And Again redraws the space through bodies in relation, asking how far collaboration can stretch before it pulls apart, and what becomes possible when two people remain connected. Ihe pertormers test rules, establish patterns, disrupt them and try again. They explore how far they can move together, when cooperation becomes resistance, and what happens when individual intentions come into conflict with shared movement. The
bands eventually come off, but the relationship they have created remains: movements are repeated, remembered and echoed without the physical connection.
In this way, Again & Again: Revisited is both a revision, a prequel and a continuation - a sculpture made through bodies, material, space and time, asking what it means to remain connected while negotiating the limits of individual and collective possibility. Photo by @joemarch_photography by @1andyash

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Abandoned souls/soles no.10 - found objects - dis-guarded things - forgotten.

A collection of shoes found on the streets of Brighton this month

#souls #soles #artobjects #contemporaryart #sculpture

@imjustbrighton @ioelondon @ucl @redherringstudios @royal_sculptors taken in Brighton and Hove by @1andyash

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Multiple image posts with different captions. Swipe left!

Time to meet the artists for ‘The Warp and the Weft’ ; an open call exhibition showcasing the work of Sussex based artists and makers.

It’s so lovely to see you support each other for the exhibition. Please post a comment, share when you can and like these posts. It really helps with the promotion of the show.

Meet Andy Ash!

Meet artist, researcher and educator @1andyash . Andy’s practice starts with an expanded idea of sculpture, moving between installation, performance, film, sound, drawing, print, text and objects. Collaboration and dialogue are central to his approach, often bringing together different disciplines and perspectives to explore how we understand ourselves, each other and the world around us. His work frequently connects artistic practice with research and education, questioning where those boundaries sit and how making, thinking and learning can inform one another. Andy’s practice is as much about interaction and process as it is about the finished work.

A (.) Walker: a performance for walking, material and place’
Film (sculpture as performance)

‘A (.) Walker: a performance for walking, material and place’ responds to The Warp & Weft through the relationship between structure, repetition, material and change. The cloth represents a given or inherited structure; the warp; while walking, treading and working across it becomes the weft: an embodied, repetitive action that introduces movement, agency and transformation.

The film draws on the historical association of the Walker (my mothers name) with the physical labour of treading and fulling cloth, but reinterprets this relationship through contemporary performance. The body becomes the tool and walking becomes a process of making, where pressure, repetition, chance and duration gradually alter the material. The cloth records the action, becoming both a surface and an archive of the encounter.

The work therefore explores the tension between what is given and what is made, between structure and improvisation, and between inherited histories and their contemporary reinterpretation.’

Andy Ash

Artists and collectors PV 16th Octo by @1andyash

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‘Again & Again: Revisited’ sculpture as performance at @theadelaidesalon last thurs evening with @ninagarstang

Wonderful event at @beachhouse.brighton @sohohouse with @therosamag

#contemporaryart #walkingpedagogy #performanceart #sculpture #contemporaryartist

@redherringstudios @ioelondon @ucl @royal_sculptors taken in Brighton and Hove by @1andyash

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Very honoured to receive this in the post today - invited to be a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. MRSS soon to be added to the title.
Looking forward to meeting everyone and collaborating.
@royal_sculptors @ucl @ioelondon @redherringstudios #sculpture #contemproraryart #royalsocietyofsculptors taken in Royal Society of Sculptors by @1andyash

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First week of PGCE Art & Design - new cohort of 40 artists, designers and craftsperson’s @ioelondon - all ready to start their teaching career.

Carol & I have put together a show of our work in the Monitor Gallery to start the conversation about ‘Practice’ - today students will share their practice - here is some of mine on show:
Hands Breaking Rules
People Places & Things
Duologue
Sussex Bay Reverberations
try again, fail again, fail better

#pgceartanddesign #artistteacher #teachertraining @nsead1 @ucl @redherringstudios #contemporaryart taken in UCL Institute of Education by @1andyash

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‘Again & Again’ will be revised & developed for the next performance with the Adelaide Salon:

At Brighton Beach House -
Soho House

Thursday 24th September 2026
7pm-10:30pm

Including ROSA Magazine Autumn Issue Launch

Please RSVP theadelaidesalon@gmail.com

You are invited to a special Salon featuring talks, performance, art and video installations set across The Loft & Rock Room of Brighton Beach House

The Salon will also host ROSA Magazine Review of Sussex Arts with the launch and introduction to the Autumn issue.

We are also delighted to welcome Hedley Swain, CEO of Brighton & Hove Museums, for a special conversation reflecting on the success of The Royal Pavilion & The Adelaide Salon Art Gala in May 2026. Together, we will look back at this extraordinary collaboration celebrating what can be achieved when cultural institutions come together, and exploring the future possibilities for contemporary art and heritage. Videography and photos of Art Gala also being shown.

At the heart of The Adelaide Salon is a belief that art thrives through connection, when disciplines cross fertilise, ideas are shared and unexpected conversations commence. Explore our website and instagram for further details on The Adelaide Salon.

Artist for the evening include Isobel Smith, The Writers Mark, Aisling Zambon, Andy Ash, Nina Garstang, Yara Wereik, Tim Lea Young and more to be announced.

We look forward to being together as we open a new artistic season and share our plans for the future here in Brighton and beyond.

PLEASE RSVP TO: theadelaidesalon@gmail.com

@redherringstudios @ioelondon @ucl #contempraryart taken in Brighton and Hove by @1andyash

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Abandon souls/soles no. 9 - found objects - dis-guarded things - forgotten.

A collection of shoes found on the streets of Brighton this month.

#souls #soles #artobjects #contemporaryart @redherringstudios @imjustbrighton @ioelondon @ucl taken in Brighton and Hove by @1andyash

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Join us this Sunday for the closing event where Martin & I will give a talk about the sound piece ‘Duologue’.

Date: Sun 6th Sept
Time: 12-2pm
Location: St John’s Church Garden, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Free booking via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/now-i-make-a-leaf-of-voices-artists-talks-tickets-1993414113274?aff=oddtdtcreator

The London Group’s free sculpture exhibition at St John’s Waterloo, ‘Now I make a leaf of Voices’, for Artists Talks About the exhibition
A free outdoor sculpture exhibition in St John’s Churchyard Garden part of the Waterloo Festival 2026

The theme originates from Walt Whitman’s roaring, elegant poem ‘Voices’ from his celebrated collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ published in 1855. It celebrates polyphony and plurality at the core of the creative expression. It takes the shape of personal and communal voices, expressing emotions, histories and opinions. Voices can soothe, entertain, anger or lead.

The London Group Exhibiting Artists:
Barbara Beyer, Paul Bonomini, Clive Burton, Paul and Laura Carey, Martin Darbyshire, Stathis Dimitriadis, Alexandra Harley, Aude Hérail Jäger, Annie Johns, Anne Leigniel, Jockel Liess (Partial Wave Child), Sumi Perera, Paul Tecklenberg, Marcia Teusink.

Invited Artists:
Andrew Ash, Gillian Brent, Andy D’Cruz, Amanda Francis, Geoixos (Partial Wave Child), Andia Coral Newton, Jessica Palmer, Desa Philippi, Yuko Shiraishi, Mark Sowden, John Wigley, Shotaro Yoshino.

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@waterloofestiv
@stjohnswaterlooarts
@redherringstudios
@ioelondon @ucl
#sculpture #contemporaryart #soundart #waterloofestival #londongroup taken in St John's Church, Waterloo by @1andyash

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Cycled to Paris in 4 days - saw the @cathydemonchaux show @palaisdetokyo - such a privilege to see her work over time - emotional and hopeful. Blown away by the generous spirit of sharing her insights.
#sculpture #contemporaryart #retrospective taken in Palais de Tokyo by @1andyash

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@waterloofestiv @stjohnswaterlooarts taken in St John's Church, Waterloo by @1andyash

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Abandon souls/soles no. 8 - found objects - dis-guarded things - forgotten.

A collection of shoes found on the streets of Brighton this month.

#souls #soles #artibjects #everyday #contempraryart
@redherringstudios @imjustbrighton @ioelondon @ucl taken in Brighton and Hove by @1andyash

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