Ash Kilmartin is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand who lives in Rotterdam. She is programmer at Radio WORM, and part of publishing collective Short Pieces That Move! From 2020 to 2022, she opened the doors at a shop called LIFE.
Upcoming
25.01
25 Hour Radio Relay, WORM06-07.03.26
Short Pieces That Move! Spring School, de Kas, Rotterdam09.04
'The real thing is ephemeral' in Future Listening, Page Not Found
Ongoing
2026 Voice-to-Text, a typography research project supported by CBK Rotterdam
2026 Still Life, a monthly radio show on Operator Radio, from January 2026
Recent
13.12.25 Guest on Sunflowers, Operator Radio
06.12.25 Vinyl-only set at Molly is Boven, Huidenclub, in connection with Jeanne Vrastor's exhibition 'A drop does not fall in a straight line'
18.10.25 Short Pieces That Move! writing session at Same Page art book fair, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Press
07.01.26 'Radio WORM: Give Chance a Chance', interview with Richard Foster, worm.org
03.09.23 ‘There’s text happening everywhere’, SPTM! in Metropolis M
Elsewhere
Workshops, guest lectures, moderation, panels
04.12.25 - Artist talk, WdKA at CultuurCampus, Rotterdam
29.11.25 - Moderator, ITERATIONS Creative Coding Symposium, The Grey Space in the Middle, the Hague
11.25 - Three-part workshop for A Tale of a Tub and TOPklas Schiedam
18.10.25 - Short Pieces That Move! writing session, Same Page Art Book Fair, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
20.09.25 - Moderator, mezzanine stage of context programme, Ultima Festival, Oslo
28.03.25 - Host, Rib Radio at Art Rotterdam as part of 'Het Zuid Manifest: I Love Carlos', Ahoy, Rotterdam
26.03.25 - Short Pieces That Move! writing session (online), Creative Publishing at Glasgow School of Art
19.04.25 - Radiomaking workshop for XLR participants, WORM, Rotterdam
03-06.04.25 - Support for Rewire Transmission workshop, Rewire, the Hague
13-14.09.24 - Moderator, mezzanine stage of context programme, Ultima Festival, Oslo
28.04.24 - Guest on panel Research Nights: Through Sounds x Rewire, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
24.04.24 - Short Pieces That Move! writing session, BOZAR, Brussels
13.05.23 - Guest on conference panel 'Future Radio, getting smarter every day', Tallinn Music Week, Tallinn
25.03.24 - Presentation of artist's books at ART Masereel print fair, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee
21.10.22 - Radioplay workshop, ATM Festival, Seoul
15.10.22 - Letterpress demonstration as part of 50 jaar Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee
21-26.05.2019 - Artist talk and workshop, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
Voice
2025 Work (Holidays) on There is No Fire in the Lake by Duncan Harrison
2025 Ambidextrous Constellation by Andrew Liles and Reinier van Houdt
2024 Veranderland (English version) by Loom at Het Noord-Brabants Museum
2024 Contact by Karel van Laere at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and Serralves, Porto
2023 Time Troublers by Loom at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2020 Behind Glass by Nele Möller
Credits
Website design: Xiaoyuan Gao
Website development: Marie Madonna
Typeface: BBB Herthey Futural by Clara Sambot and Laure Giletti