Ashleigh Wilson (she/they) is an artist, researcher, and cultural producer based in Belfast. Her practice interrogates archives, text, photographic materials, and installation to illuminate the lingering embers of conflict in N. Ireland and centre the interior lives of those caught at the peripheral intersection of personal and public histories.
Having graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2020 with the Academy Thesis Award and selected for the Steenbergen Stipendium Award, her artistic research has since been presented at various institutions across Europe including the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, ART The Hague, Kulturni Centar LAB in Novi Sad and The Black Box in Belfast.
Between 2021 and 2022, Wilson served as a researcher and curatorial assistant for the 2022 PhotoIreland Festival which showcased works from major public art collections and archives across Ireland, fostering discourse on the societal role of museums, curatorial processes, archival practices and museum models.
Currently, Wilson holds a studio at FLAX artist studios, is supported by National Lottery funding, and serves as a core team member of the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University Belfast assisting in the delivery of a rolling programme of contemporary art exhibitions and care for the historical art collection.
