Ashley Fitzgerald Williams is a mixed media collage artist based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama whose work is rooted in found imagery and inherited history. Her practice began after inheriting her great-grandmother’s postcard collection, an archive that sparked an ongoing fascination with nostalgia and visual storytelling. After years working across photography, graphic design, and other media, she picked up the X-acto knife during the pandemic when she became increasingly aware that both her professional and creative life revolved around screens.

Her collages are often absurd, colorful, and nonsensical, shaped by the feeling that modern life, and especially the constant news cycle, can border on the ridiculous. Creating collage becomes a way to process that absurdity through humor.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising with a minor in Studio Art from The University of Alabama and works as an arts administrator while maintaining an active studio practice.

About my work:

My collages are often absurd, colorful, and nonsensical, because life, (& especially the media landscape we find ourselves in), can feel ridiculous sometimes, and it can be hard to manage when everything – including my own attention span – feels incredibly fragmented. Cutting everything apart to create something new has become a way to meditate on and process that feeling.