Essay
Looking At Black Queer Art Through Time
The queer community is full of creative vision, powerful voices, and talented individuals. Yet in the modern media and contemporary art scene we only get a narrow view of the queer community and the vast amounts of people behind them who brought... More
Essay
Manet And Mutu: The Black Female Figure
Comparing Manet and Mutu’s work on representing black women within two different geographical and time periods demonstrated how people regard and disregard black women in art and life.
Curation
MASKS ON: Exploring the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora
March 2023. Ada Slaight Gallery. Masks On brings the cultural influences of the Caribbean to the contemporary art sphere through Pixel Heller’s body of work. Heller is a Toronto-based emerging Candian-Caribbean artist who works in mixed media... More
Creative Writing
My Mother Was A Girl Once: A Poem Collection
My Mother Was a Girl Once: A Poem Collection is a series of poems written to explore the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship. Exploring the grief of coming into self-hood, the loss of identity in motherhood and the relationship of... More
Curation
The Art of Celebration: Black Culture and Creativity
“True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.” - Bell Hooks (All About Love: New Visions, 1999). The Art of Celebration: Black Culture and Creativity explores the... More
Video
The Fantasy Of Light
The Fantasy of Light explores Du Bois’s Theories of Double Consciousness in contrast with J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan to investigate the experience of what it means to grow up as a black child in a White supremacist world. I wanted to question who gets... More
Essay
The Fantasy of Light: Merging Our Sense of Blackness Through Du Bois and Peter Pan
Supporting Paper for The Fantasy of Light Video Work.
Essay
Turning the Subject into the Object: Black Representation in The Italian Renaissance
An essay exploring the representation of blackness through visual and historical context by exploring the work of Venetian painter, Titian – specifically looking at the pieces, Diana and Acteon (1556-59) and Portrait of Laura Dei Dianti (1520-25).
Video
Untitled.
This untitled video is one of the first video works I have made. Creating a meditative video in an effort to explore a self-portrait through nature and elements.
Work by
Ashley Waithe
Multi Disciplinary Artist, Writer, Curator
“Ashley Waithe is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist, writer and curator whose work resonates deeply with themes of nostalgia, childhood, and the exploration of Black and Afro-Caribbean identity....” [More]