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