Ash Keating is a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary artist internationally recognised for his large-scale, abstract paintings and expansive, site-responsive interventions that traverse the boundaries between art, architecture, and the urban environment. Across a practice spanning nearly two decades, he has developed a singular visual language driven by colour, gesture, and embodied physicality — working primarily with paint applied via industrial sprayers to build up immersive surfaces of chromatic intensity. Trained in painting at Monash University and the Victorian College of the Arts, Keating has exhibited widely in institutional contexts across the globe.
Keating’s approach to painting is performative and spatial. Often created in dialogue with specific sites, his works engage audiences viscerally and temporally, as layered compositions of intense colour washes and controlled pours evoke both atmospheric depth and painterly immediacy. His painterly interventions have been commissioned by major institutions, including the National Gallery of Victoria (2013), RMIT University (2014), Adelaide Festival Centre (2015), and TarraWarra Museum of Art (2019). In 2023, he painted the façade of Haus Germann at Museum Langmatt, extending his practice into the landscape and built environment of Europe.