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Venue:
Exchange Place Project Space
Exchange Street
Sheffield S2 5TR
Open Days:
13 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb, 13 Mar
12.00-16.00
Closing Event:
Fri 27 Mar, 17.00-19.00
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Ash Martin
Testing Ground #006
Testing Ground is our residency programme at Exchange Place, intended to provide an intensive period of creative experimentation for an artist based in Sheffield.
Our artist-in-residence for Feb/Mar 2026 is Ash Martin, a multidisciplinary artist working primarily across drawing, poetry, and drag performance.
Ash Martin's dreamlike Biro drawings (rich with personal symbols, medieval marginalia, Skyrim fanart, and bubble-written poetry) chart a journey of liberation, self-mythology, and queer spiritual reimagining. These images are held within cartoonish papier-mache frames inspired by the architecture of churches and the Baroque frames of classical paintings.
For Testing Ground, Ash will push this work further by increasing the scale and creating freestanding multi-panelled works, evocative of medieval rood screens and the dioramas of table-top roleplaying games. The space will also enable Ash to test out iterations for a future installation featuring the new works.
Through a series of public open days, you are welcome to visit Ash in the studio for a glimpse of their developing work and the chance to ask them questions.
