Caroline Ashley is a British emerging artist based in London. Her practice explores assemblage, soft sculpture; referencing repetition and hand driven processes. Textiles and fabrics are at the forefront, working intuitively; collecting, thinking through her hands, using vibrant found objects.
“My work explores pattern as a negotiation of our entangled environment. Repetition and pattern are within our built landscape, woven threads clothe and protect us, ecosystems grow and flow through organic sequences of movement and lifecycles. The human-digital encounter is facilitated through pattern recognition and algorithmic systems, connecting us to cascading global networks. Humans exhibit recurring behavioural patterns, engaging in both positive and negative routines and macro to micro cycles of damage and repair. My work invites the viewer to fragment their reflection and engage in spatial play, by representing multiple perspectives simultaneously; obscuring and revealing the environment encouraging active participation.”
Ashley graduated with a Masters in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2023 and obtained a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2022.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
As If I Were a Chair: A Room Where Anxiety Walks, Candid Arts Trust, London
Catching Reflections, Window Galleries, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow
OPO Open, Old Parcels Office, Scarborough
Harlow Open Gibberd Gallery, Harlow
Reflection Pavilion, Somers Gallery, Chalton Street, London
Outbound, Galleria Objects, Brick Lane, London
2024
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2023
The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
A New Dawn, A New Day, (Curated by Pallas Citroen & Marcus Nelson) The Bomb Factory, Marylebone, London
Punctuated Equilibrium, Sky Garden 20 Fenchurch Street, London [aka The Walkie Talkie Building]
Artist residency @ 39 Eastcheap, London
MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, Studio Building Battersea, London
Moving Through, Safe House, Peckham, London
Pattern Recognition, Art Lacuna, Battersea, London
Liminal Cracks, SET Kensington, London
2022
BA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London
St Paul’s Cathedral Research Project, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art, London
Beyond Green: The Age of Adjustment, Chelsea Marquee, Chelsea College of Art, London
Before the Moon I Am, Hoxton Arches V, London
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025
Trustees Prize, Old Parcels Office Scarborough
Harlow Art Trust, Gibbard Gallery, 3rd Prize
2023
Artist residency @ 39 Eastcheap, London
TALKS / WORKSHOPS
The Tagli - A Studio Visit with Caroline Ashley
2 Day Textile Workshop with Year 9 at The Reach Academy, Rickmansworth
The London Group Open Artist Talk
CURATION
Caroline Ashley is a co-founder of Collective Gallery @collective.gallery_