Ash Lieb

Born Ash Gottlieb in Ballarat, Australia on the 22nd August 1982

"Ash Lieb is more a fan of lyrics than poetry, which seeps into his prose like spilt beer into a cardboard bar coaster, creating the kind of authenticity you find only after spending the night sucking the alcohol from your torn grunge t-shirt surrounded by the bar moths and the bar flies."

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Ash Lieb is an iconoclast, which is never more evident than with the removal of god from within his very name.  From the nightfall of his teenage years, the literature of Ash Lieb encompasses the nihilism of the grunge generation and the iconoclasm of the beat generation to form an anarchy filled madness that swells throughout the pages like the way drunken insects must fly.


The visual art and comedy of Ash Lieb deals in the absurd. While one element deals with the laughter, nonsense and ridicule of absurd or surreal humour the other deals with the philosophical definition of absurdism regarding the conflict between pursuing the meaning of life and the inability to find it.

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