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Bek Ashton
Bek Ashton studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art (2020) and completed the Drawing Year Masters Programme at the Royal Draeing School (2024). She creates enigmatic images playing between self-referential fact and fiction. Her work, characterised by a dark tone with humorous edges, celebrates our dense, overlapping, and often uncanny existence. Her drawings are often created in reaction to her own writing, a poem or a memory. She constructs and deconstructs, drawing and redrawing, playing with texture and gesture, inviting the viewer to sink into ephemera.
Education
Royal Drawing School Masters Programme | 2024
BA (Hons) in Communication Design | The Glasgow School of Art 2017-2020
Foundation Diploma in Illustration | Kingston College 2016-2017
Awards
Rhode Island School of Design Residency | 2025
2024/5 Selected Shows
- Christie's - Best of the Drawing Year - London
- Royal Drawing School Shoreditch Show - London
- Hackney Studios - London
- Board Room Committee Room - PAPER - Glasgow
- Waterman Building - Drawings Marathon - Rhode Island