Ashleigh Keller

Ashleigh Keller is an emerging artist living and working on Kaurna Land in South Australia. Keller brings to life evocative ceramic sculptures that explore ideas around family, memory, and self. Much of Keller’s work examines the distant and intangible, making the medium of ceramics an integral element in her practice, creating work that is physical, permanent, and certain.

In 2021, Keller completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts through Flinders University and Adelaide College of the Arts. Keller’s work was selected for the prestigious Helpmann Graduate Exhibition 2022, and she was awarded the Peter Walker/Helpmann Advancement Award and the SALA Award.

Since graduating Keller spoke at SALA’s 2022 Slide Night, hosted a sell-out opening night for her 2022 debut solo exhibition, Bloom and completed the Vanguard program at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2023 Keller was involved in the group exhibitions Outside, Inside & All the way around at Light Square Gallery and Bitter Sweet at Newmarch Gallery. More recently Keller has shown with The Hospital Research Foundation Group Creative Health’s exhibition Axiogenesis: Failure and other lies at Dentons.

Keller is currently completing a Masters of Secondary Education at Flinders University and is excited to complete her studies and begin a career in arts education while maintaining her own art practice. Keller continues finding inspiration within monsters and memories and is interested in expanding on these subjects as well as exploring their intersection.