Vex Ashley Movies

The history of traditional portraiture is about status and branding. With this portrait we were interested in breaking down those layers of...

The Proximity series explores a digital replication of intimacy. The intense closeness of the camera highlights interactions sometimes lost in...

A meditation on obscenity, censorship, the body, excess and restriction, fakery and reality. The series is based loosely around the alchemical...

Highlighting the intricacies lost in convention between two people focused solely in themselves.

Adjoining mouths find connection within each other... and a popsicle

We record, broadcast and replicate our images on an unprecedented scale. Observing and seeing.

Wilhelm Reich's in The Function of the Orgasm theorised a powerful bioelectrical sexual life force he called orgone energy, it could be harnessed...

Flux is the conduit for transference of energy.

The pull of the black square, the luminous screen, both a window and a mirror has been ever more persistent in our consciousness. Increasingly our...

The body and all it's interiors. Pushing back against the idolisation of the body as an immutable object to be sanitised and preserved. Not a doll to...

Unyielding urges dressed in warm light under the cover of darkness

Folk Horror as a film genre explores the power of ritual, stories passed down through generations and long forgotten. Taking sanitised modern life...

Abjection is a complicated, multifaceted concept that this person is going to do a much better job of beginning to explain than me. It explores how...

The period of time when the sun falls below the horizon line and tears of blue and orange gradiate the sky. I’ve always called this indigo hour...

Jealousy is a visceral emotion. Being driven to distraction and loss of control is akin to slipping down the rabbit hole, a descent into hell. Safety...

We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across continents, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways...

A forced perspective through lips

The blinding light of someone's adoration burns out their ability to see inherent human complexity and messy contradictions and hypocrisies.

Moments only captured in the sun

How are we consumed through one screen and fed back through to another. Shot using an iMac, a Macbook, Skype, the TV, an iPad, and an iPhone, or as...