mixed-media pieces he made in collaboration with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute are "spooky" images of green-skinned creatures emerging from a sea littered with cans and bottles. Collaboration with Yogyakarta Art Lab Bickerton’s most recent project was a collaboration with the Yogyakarta Art Lab (YAL). YAL is Gajah Gallery’s major initiative based in Yogyakarta - Indonesia’s up and coming art hub - co-founded in April 2012 by Indonesian artist Yunizar and owner of Gajah Gallery Jasdeep Sandhu. This collaboration involved Bickerton creating series of sculptures which examined what he liked to think of as the "mitochondrial eve". Originally derived from clay models the artist created in his Bali studio, they were reinvented in Jogjakarta in a variety of archival materials centered on cast aluminum. These then new works now coming out of YAL have been described by Jasdeep Sandhu as "Some of the more important contemporary sculpture produced in the past 10 years". Later works Bickerton continued to develop work within his established themes and iconography of tropical surrealism, green-headed characters, and assemblages. His work in 2006 and 2007 took the form of large-format digital prints and paintings with thick wooden frame constructions with various inlays. These elements can be seen in "Made's Warung" 2006 and "Green Head with Inlay 1" (2007). 2014 marked the start of a new series of Silver Ladies, which are manifested in a double portrait of two identical subjects, beautiful young Balinese women, nude except for a floral sash around their hips and coronas of tropical flowers. Their bare skin and dreadlocked hair are painted shiny silver, their lips in vivid colours. The first work in this series is a painting titled 2 C (A)W E2 P.G. 2 T(B) W. The model for both figures is the artist’s Balinese wife, Cherry Saraswati Bickerton as quoted from the catalogue "Junk Anthropologies" - Ashley Bickerton written by Jamie James and published by Gajah Gallery. References External links O'Flaherty's gallery Lehmann Maupin Gallery INFRAME TV Sonnabend Gallery, Ashley Bickerton Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Ashley Bickerton 1959 births 2022 deaths Deaths from motor neuron disease American contemporary artists California Institute of the Arts alumni Barbadian emigrants to the United States American expatriates in Indonesia Naturalized citizens of the United States Artists from New York City