For years my work has been built on one simple idea: sampling. “I sampled true love” is a line from a song by Erykah Badu. In it, she pays homage to hip hop as her muse. That idea of sampling, lifting, layering, reworking and ultimately honouring a source has shaped my practice for years. I once considered myself primarily a painter, hand painting lyrics onto abstract canvases. Then one day I saw a wall that demanded to be used. Around this time I had begun cutting letters in

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Paper knives and dragonflies | ashwan Early March 2020, we got the news the country was about to enter a severe lockdown due to a pandemic. Had I read that sentence a couple of weeks before the event, I would have thought I was starting a science fiction novel. The lockdown in Barcelona meant that you could not leave your home except for essential business for a minimum of 8 weeks. I would not be able to go to the studio to work, Artist being a 'non-essential' profession. Cre

This is the remix of a track I had been working on for my 'PaperKnives and Dragonflies' project that I could just never quite finish. A...

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came down to support the vernissage of Sample Culture and also to the good people at Young Gallery...

Lifting/borrowing/homage/theft/referencing/reproduction! Whatever term is preferred often depends upon your perspective, but these are...

Cesar Comanche x Ashwan collab! Recently I was contacted by Cesar Comanche, asking "What would it take to have you do my next tee...

Inheritance Wax was a project that started around 2006, when Ashwan was working with the elderly in Liverpool, UK. As they passed on,...

Artistic collaboration is never easy! The pig-headed ego of the artist makes compromise difficult; at times impossible. Once you start mixin

Earlier this week, BienCuadrado worked in collaboration with Young Gallery Weekend to host a collective group show entitled State Of The...