Kathryn Ashill Brush Me, Floss Me or Lose Me

Welcome Home Window Installation: Wed 7 - Wed 21 January 2015.

Performance: Sat 10 January 2015, 7pm. Free. Menthol and teeth related refreshments provided.

Brush Me, Floss Me or Lose Me is a new body of work created by Glasgow-based artist Kathryn Ashill. The performance and installation, developed by Ashill with the support of Welcome Home, deals with the difficulties of ageing and establishing a sense of belonging. Loosely based on George Orwell’s novel Coming Up for Air, Ashill’s work focuses on the book's protagonist, George Bowling. He is a fat, middle-aged man who experiences an identity crisis after acquiring his first set of false teeth.

Kathryn Ashill is ageing, and also yearning for the same sense of belonging as George. She still has all her own teeth.

Kathryn Ashill (1984) was born in Wales, lives and works in Glasgow and is currently on the MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Ashill has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows. Solo exhibitions include: For Future Reference (2013), Meantime residency space, Cheltenham; Cock[le] pit (2012), part of Adain Avion the Cultural Olympiad lead project for Wales; In Memory of Balloon Girl (2011), St David’s Hall, Cardiff; ‘Craig Y Nos’ (2010), Pontardawe Arts Centre. Group exhibitions: Formal Interference (2014), Le Murate, Florence; MFA1 Interim Show (2014), Glasgow School of Art; Gwenan International (2014) The Old Hairdressers Glasgow; Bow Belles (2013) Warren House, London; The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner (2012) Flux Factory, NYC; There’s no time we made it up (2013), The looking glass, Bristol; ‘Scratch Nights’ (2010) MK Gallery, Milton Keynes.

Kathryn has been awarded Arts Council of Wales grants in 2010, 2011 and 2013.