Courtney Askey is a cross-disciplinary artist, musician and writer who aims to interrogate her experience as an artist through the use of transmedia storytelling. She explores fiction, identity, AI technology and gender through an anti-capitalist and post-cyberfeminist lens. Her work questions what labour means in both a wider sense, and in the making of her own work. The politics of labor are not absent from the creation of her artwork and its position in the greater landscape of the art institution.
Her practice is about making; what she has made, what she will make, why she makes, how she sees herself during making, how she sees herself in relation to how others will see her after making. In approaching this through an analytical and curatorial perspective, the work goes through a number of filtration processes which allows it to eventually grow into its position within the gallery. When her artwork is situated within the gallery it exists within the pre-existing context of the space, and these conditions contribute directly to the fabric of her work. Courtney's most recent solo exhibition The Total Rebrand Retreat (May 2023) took place on Governors Island in New York after a three month residency with Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn (supported by Arts Council England funding). She has exhibited in a number of solo and group shows, and completed commissions in collaboration with local organisations. For her exhibitions she has been awarded Outstanding Exhibition by De Montfort University in 2021, The Graduate Award by Two Queens in 2018, and awards from Silver Vine Arts and Leicester Lo-Fi Photography in 2015.
Through the AA2A Placement Courtney aims to develop her research-based practice by developing 2D and 3D artworks in workshops that incorporate the digital with the physical, and question how the non-physical can be made tangible.