Ashley Fiona is an artist living and working in Port Stephens on Worimi land in New South Wales, whose practice honours the complex ritual of death and mourning, crafting intricately hand painted Ashkeeper urns that hold the ashes of our loved ones.

Ashley Fiona graduated with First Class Honours from the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales in 2010. Following graduation, Ashley has exhibited her artworks throughout Australia, whilst continuing her work with The Australian Ceramics Association and The Journal of Australian Ceramics. Her work has been curated into major exhibitions at institutions throughout Australia, including Manly Art Gallery, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Brisbane Modern Art Gallery and Gosford Regional Art Gallery.

Ashley has undertaken national residencies at SODA, Sculptural Objects and Design Australia, International Ceramic Residency, Fremantle, Western Australia. In 2013 Ashley was awarded the ArtStart grant by the Arts Funding Division of the Australia Council for the Arts and this enabled her to take the much desired step of pursuing her ceramic practice on a more permanent basis. In 2016 she was awarded the People’s Choice Award for her artwork ‘Ashkeeper’, exhibited as part of the inaugural Life in Death exhibition at Palliative Care Australia Inc, ACT. In 2017 she was selected for the Reflected Legacy Practitioner Training Program by Robyn Wilson and The Groundswell Project at Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales.

Exhibiting since 2008, Ashley's work is held in numerous private collections. Her works feature in Frankie Magazine, IndieLove Magazine, Ceramics Art and Perception and The Journal of Australian Ceramics.

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