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Ashley Holmes, Shape Up (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'i'm just glad they finally came through and gave a real brudda a job' (2017) Video still. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, Shape Up (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'neat waves, short & neat' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'neat waves, short & neat ' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'neat waves, short & neat ' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'neat waves, short & neat ' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, 'neat waves, short & neat ' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Permissions, '**no time wasters**' (2017) Audio mixtape. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Ashley Holmes, Shape Up (2017) Promo image. Courtesy the artist + Losers Gym, Nottingham. Photo credit: Reece Straw
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Dissecting codes of conduct with Ashley Holmes in Shape Up at Losers Gym

, 6 June 2017
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Ashley Holmes presented solo exhibition Shape Up at Nottingham’s Losers Gym which opened May 4 and is running to May 28.

The mixed media installation brought together painting, video, text and an audio installation that features a mixtape by Permissions. The Sheffield-based artist explores “intergenerational understandings and productions of Black British culture” and the politics of power that run through ‘codes of conduct.’

He recently took part in Sheffield’s Site Gallery Platform Residency with exhibition Dot Dot Dit Dit Dot Dot Dash (2017).

Founded in 2014 as a studio space, Losers Gym became a project space in 2016 run by Freddy Griffiths, Sam Hewland, Jake Kent, Francis Madders, Alex Walker and Josh Wheeler.**

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'Shape Up' Alex Walker Ashley Holmes Francis Madders Freddy Griffiths Jake Kent Josh Wheeler Loseres Gym Permissions Sam Hewland
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