Vex Ashley Movies

A purification ritual, salt and water.

How are we consumed through one screen and fed back through to another. Shot using an iMac, a Macbook, Skype, the TV, an iPad, and an iPhone, or as...

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

A Botticelli made flesh, two artist’s models in the studio sitting for a painting, laid out in the sun. Marble statues draped in sheets,...

Porn aesthetics and archetypes are fascinating, sex on film has always been innovative, at the forefront of pushing technology and creativity. Being...

Folk Horror as a film genre explores the power of ritual, stories passed down through generations and long forgotten. Taking sanitised modern life...

A meditation on obscenity, censorship, the body, excess and restriction, fakery and reality. The series is based loosely around the alchemical...

The thiasus, was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus.

The act of giving up control; devotion and subjugation. Dual states of purity and sin. The ritual of transcendence. The undertones of tension that...

Highlighting the intricacies lost in convention between two people focused solely in themselves.

Indulgence in it's first form

A muted record of beginnings

The history of traditional portraiture is about status and branding. With this portrait we were interested in breaking down those layers of...

Sleep is such a vulnerable state, it requires a complete letting go of control. Slipping out of waking consciousness into another world. A world...

The Proximity series explores a digital replication of intimacy. The intense closeness of the camera highlights interactions sometimes lost in...

The process of turning base material into gold, the philosophers stone. A metaphor for the way certain acts and bodily materials are treated as...

A transference of energy; an exothermic reaction. The marks are product. A way of distilling intangible energy into physical permanence. Skin is the...

Our bodies are conduits, sex is transference of energy. Eyes, mouths and orifices become blackholes against glittering skin, fluids dark against...

Long moments of brushed skin melting within each other

Momentum, moments, movement mix together in bliss.