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Ashleigh Bartlett
Ashleigh Bartlett’s practice comprises painting and collage, and explores pop culture references, theatricality, costumes and disguise as they relate to feminism, as well as the conceptual aspects of abstract art.
Ashleigh completed a BFA at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2006, and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2011. She subsequently returned to Calgary where she has taught at ACAD herself.
Her work has included painting, drawing, collage, smooth fabric-like and cut paintings in bright colours that have a malleable and sculptural quality. The folded fabric or canvas paper has a voluminous, 3-D quality that provokes curiosity about what lies beneath. “The concept of reveal and conceal really interests me,” says Bartlett, who works on the process of layering and building up a surface to highlight what’s underneath.
She has been engaged in an international project, Circles and Wigs, in collaboration with Jessica Groome in Berlin. Working together on exchanges in Toronto, Berlin and Boston, Circles and Wigs have produced a series of paintings and installations in a variety of art-making strategies. Speed, spontaneity, experimentation and play are all key components of their process.
International residencies in Sweden (2013), Los Angeles and Bergen, Norway, are part of Ashleigh’s evolving practice. Her art- or curatorial work has been shown in group or solo exhibits in galleries in Calgary (Skew and Paul Kuhn Galleries), London (ON) and Toronto, Kelowna, Montreal and Venice, Italy. Her video “Bucketheads” was featured at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta’s Future Station: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art.
In 2014, Ashleigh Bartlett was a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award in 2016. Her work is in the permanent collections of Global Affairs Canada Visual Arts Collection, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Cenovus, Encana and the Heritage Property Corporation.
Ashleigh completed a BFA at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary in 2006, and an MFA from the University of Guelph in 2011. She subsequently returned to Calgary where she has taught at ACAD herself.
Her work has included painting, drawing, collage, smooth fabric-like and cut paintings in bright colours that have a malleable and sculptural quality. The folded fabric or canvas paper has a voluminous, 3-D quality that provokes curiosity about what lies beneath. “The concept of reveal and conceal really interests me,” says Bartlett, who works on the process of layering and building up a surface to highlight what’s underneath.
She has been engaged in an international project, Circles and Wigs, in collaboration with Jessica Groome in Berlin. Working together on exchanges in Toronto, Berlin and Boston, Circles and Wigs have produced a series of paintings and installations in a variety of art-making strategies. Speed, spontaneity, experimentation and play are all key components of their process.
International residencies in Sweden (2013), Los Angeles and Bergen, Norway, are part of Ashleigh’s evolving practice. Her art- or curatorial work has been shown in group or solo exhibits in galleries in Calgary (Skew and Paul Kuhn Galleries), London (ON) and Toronto, Kelowna, Montreal and Venice, Italy. Her video “Bucketheads” was featured at Edmonton’s Art Gallery of Alberta’s Future Station: 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art.
In 2014, Ashleigh Bartlett was a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award in 2016. Her work is in the permanent collections of Global Affairs Canada Visual Arts Collection, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Cenovus, Encana and the Heritage Property Corporation.