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Ashley Eriksmoen

Ashley Eriksmoen

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

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Ashley Eriksmoen researches the capacity of recontextualised waste materials to produce narratives revealing the interconnectedness of resource extraction, consumerism, waste and ecological damage. Eriksmoen received her MFA in Furniture Design at Rhode Island School of Design (USA) in 2000. Since emigrating to Australia in 2012, she has taught design and visual arts as a Senior Lecturer at Australian National University's School of Art & Design.

  • Critical design 
  • Studio craft
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley. "Cool New Things For Your House" (2024). Timber from salvaged furniture. Installation: 120 x 500 x 500 cm. Exhibiting in "Materiality . . . but not as we know it" at Canberra Museum and Gallery.
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley.  (2023). Timber from salvaged furniture, acrylic paint. Installation: 75 x 495 x 170 cm. Exhibiting at 2023 NGV Triennial. In the collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley. "Jetsam takes root" (2022). Timber from salvaged furniture, oil. Installation: 200 x 8000 x 300 cm. Exhibited at 2022 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, Sydney and at 2023 Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe, Perth.
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley. "The Dream, or The view from here is both bleak and resplendent" (2022). Timber from salvaged furniture, Australian wool from vintage blankets, acrylic and milk paints, oil. 180 x 220 x 60 cm. Exhibited in 2022 in "Australian Furniture Design Awards" (winner) at Stylecraft, Melbourne and in 2023-2024 at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Melbourne. In the collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley. "We are all nest builders making meaning with sticks" (2022). Timber from salvaged furniture, acrylic and milk paints, oil. Installation: 9 parts each 60 x 60 x 5 cm. Exhibited in 2022 in "Birds & Language" at Wollongong Art Gallery.
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley. "Following years of steady decline, we are witnessing a period of unprecedented growth" (2021). Timber from salvaged furniture, wool textiles, acrylic and milk paints, oil. 160 x 60 x 60 cm. Exhibited in "2021 Clarence Prize for Excellence in Furniture Design" (winner) at Rosny Farm, Hobart. In the collection of Clarence City Council.
  • Eriksmoen, Ashley.  (2021). Axon: Creative Explorations Vol 11, No 2, December 2021, pp 78-95. DOI: 10.54375/001/ch0siv2bk0Â