The Chronicler: Ash Martin
Through imaginary cultural studies, anamorphic storytelling, and drag performance, multidisciplinary artist Ash Martin steps into the Sightseers’ multiverse as The Chronicler, an entity intent on uncovering the speculative histories and motives of the larger-than-life, multicoloured beings found inhabiting this world.
The Chronicler is a new performance commission merging sci-fi drag with abstract poetry and storytelling, punctuating these with strange ceremonial acts held within a shifting sonic landscape that builds upon the world of the Sightseers.
Image credit: Photograph from a performance with Layan Harman at Gathering Mythologies, Hypha Studios, photo by Anthony McGarry.
About Ash Martin
Ash Martin is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, poetry, and performance, exploring drag for its fantastical worldbuilding possibilities. They are currently artist-in-residence at Testing Ground, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield. Recent exhibitions include Gathering Mythologies at Hypha Studios, London; The Field is Forever at Two Queens, Leicester; and Stomach of Silt at GLOAM Gallery, Sheffield.
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Is Humber Street Gallery wheelchair accessible?
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