Ash Kilmartin

Ash Kilmartin is a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in Rotterdam since 2015. She works with the found - materials, language, situations - to document the small moments of private and collective experience that shape the way we think our own lives. She likes to play with the gaps. After completing the MFA programme at Piet Zwart Institute, she worked for Wilfried Lentz, and from 2020-2022 she ran the exhibition space known as A Shop Called LIFE. Since 2021 she has been part of the team behind Radio WORM, where she is now lead programmer, coordinating daily broadcasts, regular live events and special external projects. She has her own radio residencies on Operator Radio and Radio Tempo Não Pára. She is part of the editorial collective Short Pieces That Move!, a Rotterdam-based publishing project with an emphasis on collective learning and experimentation with or against English as a material.