Ash Giblin
Ash Giblin is a Naarm-based photographer working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. Working predominantly with 35mm film, his practice centres intimate and surreal portraiture of queer and trans bodies, treating environments as collaborators rather than backdrops. Working across cruising beats, abandoned buildings, domestic spaces, and studios, his images explore how bodies negotiate risk, desire, and visibility within sites shaped by queer subculture.
Through abstract bodily forms, charged gestures, and experimental posing, Giblin’s work examines the friction between care and exposure, intimacy and threat. His practice is informed by lived experience, community engagement, and a commitment to representing queer embodiment on its own terms.
Liminal Space
Photography (35mm Film), 2026.
42 x 59.4 cm
$250 (unframed)
Brick Boy (collaboration with artist Falconeris Marimon) explores a queer body’s interaction with an abandoned studio space through sustained engagement with a single brick. Photographed on 35mm film, the series stages gestures of holding, balancing, pressing, and carrying - treating the brick not as construction material, but as weight, partner, and point of resistance.
The work sits slightly out of place within its own environment. The body performs intimacy and strain within a site of industrial neglect, disrupting the expected relationship between softness and structure. The brick shifts from object to collaborator, and the studio becomes less backdrop than constraint.
The anomaly in this series is subtle: a body moving tenderly through a space that does not accommodate it, insisting on contact where none is implied. Through repetition and physical negotiation, Brick Boy unsettles assumptions about material, masculinity, labour, and belonging - inviting viewers to pause with what doesn’t quite align.