Ashley Eriksmoen

Accredited Professional Membership

Wood + Textiles

Ashley Eriksmoen engages in a studio-based practice of critical design. Over the past decade, Ashley has been salvaging timber and appropriating discarded wood furniture to construct her works. She has steered away from narrow disciplinary boundaries, pursuing furniture in the expanded field as a way of addressing pressing environmental issues including natural resource use, consumer waste, deforestation and wildlife habitat reductions.

Eriksmoen earned her Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences (1992) from Boston College, Certificate in Fine Woodworking (1998) from College of the Redwoods (1998) and Master of Fine Arts (2000) in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Clarence Prize for Excellence in Furniture Design (2021), the Australian Furniture Design Award (2022), and the Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitational Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (2022). Her work is exhibited nationally and overseas, and is in private and public collections including The RISD Museum (Providence, USA), Museum of Art in Wood (Philadelphia, USA), and the NGV (Melbourne, Australia).

Online Resources

Website: ashleyeriksmoen.com

Instagram: the_ashsmoen

COVER IMAGE: 'FOLLOWING YEARS OF DECLINE, WE ARE WITNESSING A PERIOD OF UNPRECEDENTED GROWTH', 2021, VARIOUS TIMBER SPECIES, WOOL TEXTILE, ACRYLIC AND MILK PAINTS, DANISH OIL, 170 X 55 X 55 CM, PHOTO: DAVID PETERSON 

TOP IMAGE 1: 'THE DREAM, OR, THE VIEW FROM HERE IS BOTH BLEAK AND RESPLENDENT', 2022, VARIOUS TIMBER SPECIES, WOOL TEXTILE, ACRYLIC AND MILK PAINTS, DANISH OIL, 200 X 200 X 50 CM. PHOTO: DAVID PETERSON

TOP IMAGE 2: 'MODERNISM GONE TO SEED', 2015, VARIOUS TIMBER SPECIES, ACRYLIC AND MILK PAINTS, DANISH OIL, 100 X 160 X 160 CM, PHOTO: MARTIN OLLMAN