Ashley Ronning is a Naarm/Melbourne-based illustrator and artist. Her creative endeavours began when she was five and she cut her own hair to complete a picture of a pony. She can usually be found in her studio drawing, risograph printing or working on her next zine. When her pens are down she's playing pinball, going to gigs or having a tinnie in the sunshine. 

Select clients include Who Gives A Crap, Hop Nation, frankie magazine, Five Senses Coffee, ABC, Milk Records, Archie Rose Distilling Co, The Wheeler Centre, Meanjin Quarterly, The Lifted Brow, Suntory Australia, PBS FM, Laneway Festival, Poison City Records and She Shreds magazine.

For enquiries please email hello@ashleyronning.com

Solo Exhibitions
No Place Like Space – Magic Johnston, Melbourne – February 2017
Deep Space House Plant – Rooftop Art Space, Melbourne – February 2015

Selected group exhibitions
LOCALS – Outré Gallery, Melbourne – 21 February – 16 March 2025
Wayzgoose – Megalo Print Studio, Canberra – November 2024
B-SIDE – Blindside Gallery, Melbourne – October 2024
Schoolhouse Studios resident exhibition – Schoolhouse Studios – August 2024
Paper Treasures – Zig Zag Gallery, Perth – May 2024
My Famicase Exhibition – METEOR, Tokyo, Japan – April 2024
LOCALS – Outré Gallery, Melbourne – February 2024
Buggin’ Out – Off The Kerb, Collingwood, Melbourne – Dec 2023
My Famicase Exhibition – METEOR, Tokyo, Japan – April 2023
Horses, Bicycles and Automobiles: The Hardest Things To Draw – Pink Ember Studio, Melbourne – August 2022
Feature Presentation x BORLFF – New Farm Cinema, Brisbane – July 2022
Risographomania – Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville – February 2022 (co-curator)
Locker Room Talk – No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne – March 2022
Natura Morta – Boom Gallery, Geelong – December 2021
Storytelling with a Stylus: Digital Comics Art (Papercuts Comic Festival), Adelaide – September 2021
Alternate Ornament – online exhibition – December 2020
So Sci-Fi – in.cube8r Gallery, Melbourne – November 2019
Praise You – Lighthouse, Brisbane – August 2019
Dead Format 2 – Melbourne and Brisbane – September 2018 (co-curator)
Love and Other Crimes – Betty's Espresso, Brisbane – February 2018
Hear Me Out – Collingwood Arts Precinct, Melbourne – November 2017
Comfort Zone – Toast Workroom – August 2017
Bloomin' Beauty – BSIDE Gallery, Melbourne – August 2017
In Common – Guild of Objects, Melbourne – August 2017
Think Pink – Enough Space, Melbourne – November 2016
Playful – Melbourne City Library, Melbourne – April, 2016
Hi, We're New Here – Enough Space, Melbourne – December 2015
Science Friction – Counihan Gallery, Melbourne – November 2015
Secret Garden – Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne – October 2015
Copier Jam! – Touring regional QLD and NSW – July 2015 to July 2017

Selected Press

An interview about zines on ABC RN’s The Art Show
A blog post I wrote for the National Library Of Australia – The World Of Zines
OnProcess podcast interview (On Risograph Printing)
Feature interview on The Design Kids
Graduate feature interview at the Shillington Design Blog
Illustrator Spotlight at BOOOOOOOM
Guest on episode 3 of Wowee Podcast

There's a song by Melbourne band Piss Factory called ashleyronning.com, isn't that cool??