Ashley Eriksmoen
EducationBoston College (BFS 1992), College of the Redwoods (Certificate, 1998), Rhode Island School of Design (MFA 2000)
Known forFurniture maker and educator
Websitehttps://ashleyeriksmoen.com/home.html

Ashley Eriksmoen is a California-born Australia-based furniture maker, woodworker, artist, and educator.

Early life and education

Eriksmoen was born in raised in southern California.[1] Eriksmoen attended Boston College, receiving a BS in geology in 1992. She took a year off during undergraduate to study art at the Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy.[2] Eriksmoen studied at the College of the Redwoods (now the Krenov School) from 1997 to 1998, receiving a Certificate of Fine Woodworking.[3] She went on to receive a master's degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2000.[4]

Career

Artist

Eriksmoen uses salvaged urban waste such as tables and chairs to create complex interwoven sculptures.[5] She was included in a curated group exhibition in 2019 about humans and the environment titled I Thought I Heard a Bird at Craft ACT in Canberra, Australia.[5][6] Her series Feral: Rewilding Furniture, made with found broken timber, personifies and animates found furniture, comparing the living and built world.[2] She was an artist-in-residence artist at San Diego State University[7] and is a member of the Furniture Society and part of the Studio Furniture movement.[8]

Her artwork has been published in 500 Tables, American Woodworker Magazine, and With Wakened Hands, a book on the students of James Krenov.[9][10] She was awarded a Fuji Xerox Sustainable Art Award in 2014[11] Eriksmoen's piece Criogriff was featured in the exhibition Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking at the Center for Art in Wood in 2019 curated by Dierdre Visser and Laura Mays.[12][13] She was also interviewed for the book Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century, by Visser.

In 2021 Eriksomen won Tasmania's Clarence Prize with her furniture piece "Following years of steady decline we are witnessing a period of unprecedented growth".[14][15] Her "Meares Island Nurse Log" furniture piece was selected for the 2022 Melbourne Design Fair, presented by the National Gallery of Victoria with the Melbourne Art Foundation.[16][17] Her chaise, "The Dream or: the view from here is both bleak and resplendent" won the 2022 Australian Furniture Design Award, awarded by Stylecraft and the National Gallery of Victoria.[18][19][20][15]

Educator

Eriksmoen is the Head of Furniture Workshop, Convenor of Craft and Design and Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Ms Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen | Climate Change Institute". climate.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b Pryor, Sally (9 June 2016). "Back to the wild: Canberra-based woodwork artist Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen on 'feral' furniture". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Ashley Eriksmoen « The Krenov School of Fine Furniture". thekrenovschool.org. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Alumni News" (PDF). RISD Views: 30. June 2009.
  5. ^ a b Cousins, Kerry-Anne (8 April 2019). "Two exhibitions that provide a dialogue between us and our environment". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  6. ^ "I thought I heard a bird". Craft ACT. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Ashley Eriksmoen". SDSU Furniture Design and Woodworking. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Ashley Eriksmoen | The Furniture Society". Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  9. ^ Hemachandra, Ray; Hale, Julie (2009). 500 tables : inspiring interpretations of function and style (1st ed.). New York: Lark Books. p. 341. ISBN 9781600590573. OCLC 236117397.
  10. ^ "Excellence Awards Finalists". American Woodworker. 70. December 1998.
  11. ^ "2014 Award Recipients". CAPO. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  12. ^ "Criogriff". The Center for Art in Wood. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  13. ^ "The Show". Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  14. ^ "Clarence Prize for Furniture Design". Clarence Arts & Events. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  15. ^ a b School, Head of; admin.SoMAD@anu.edu.au (20 July 2021). "ANU furniture designer wins $20,000 prize for boundary-pushing work". School of Art & Design. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  16. ^ McDonald, Matthew (9 February 2022). "Melbourne Design Fair to fill a key gap in local market | IndesignLive". Indesign Live: Interior Design and Architecture. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  17. ^ "MDW 2022: Elliot Bastianon". MDW 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  18. ^ Keft, Ellie (24 March 2022). "Winner of Australian Furniture Design Award Announced | green magazinegreen magazine". green magazine. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  19. ^ Kaluder, Caelan (21 March 2022). "Canberra designer Ashley Eriksmoen wins Australian Furniture Design Award | IndesignLive". Indesign Live: Interior Design and Architecture. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  20. ^ "Ashley Eriksmoen wins the Australian Furniture Design Award 2022 | Habitus". Habitusliving.com. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  21. ^ Director (Research Services Division). "Ms Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 26 July 2022.

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