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Ashlin is a visual artist, musician, writer, filmmaker, and designer exploring the intersection of humanity, ecology and transformative listening—investigating how art can become a form of collective healing, bridging material work and personal storytelling to reconnect us with what's been lost in our environments, systems, and ourselves.




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Education
MA, Material Futures
Central Saint Martins, 2022

BA, Studio Art & Film
Vanderbilt University, 2017 


Professional CertificationsSomatic Experiencing Practitioner
2023 - Present 

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification, 2021


Exhibitions PreTense
Studio 51, 
Santa Fe, NM, 2025

Recycle Santa Fe Annual Exhibition
Santa Fe Convention Center
Santa Fe, NM, 2024

Material Futures Exhibition
Granary Square, 
London, 2022

Material Propositions
Granary Square 
London, 2021

Artist Field
Richmond, VT, 2021  

Design for Non-Human Life 
Virtual Exhibition
London, 2020 

Margaret Stonewall Woodridge Hamblet Exhibition
Space 204
Nashville, TN 2017

Outlet: A Video and Performance Event
E. Bronson Ingram Courtyard, Nashville, TN, 2017

A More Perfect Union, Dear America,
The Tang Teaching Museum Saratoga Springs, New York, 2017

Uniform Truth
Space 204 
Nashville, TN 2017

Applied Ventures
Berthwork, Founder
       Supporting womxn through the transformative threshold into motherhood


EartHouse, Founder 
       a collective of artists & designers with a shared vision for the future


Board Member, Teacher, Improviser | Santa Fe Improv
       Supporting the cultivation of community and social capital through play & spontaneous engagement



Copyright  Ashlin  McAndrew 2025







Post-Colonial Quilt
Discarded plastic plants, cotton thread
50" x 40" 
2024


Post-Colonial quilt travels back to the origins of colonialism in the U.S.. Created with discarded plastic plants, the quilt explores the origin point of the western world we inhabit today – a world where we attempt to replicate nature while simultaneously destroying her.




Decommissioned decommissioned wild fire hoses, 
plastic plant leaves, 
70.5" x33.5", 2024


Due to the rising intensity of wildfires in the United States, thehoses used to fight these fires are decommissioned because theyno longer meet the required pressure standards. Every year, 1million lbs and 7 thousand miles of these hoses aredecommissioned and become waste. These retired hoses areused to craft this American flag 





Fragments
Plastic plant fragments, quilt off-cuts
15 ft x 8 ft
2025


When making the Post Colonial quilt, my studio floor was filled with plastic plant off-cuts as a result of repeatedly cutting squares. They became the pieces that didn’t fit, discarded on the floor. It made me think about systems and structures the U.S. was built on –– systems in structures that many inherently don’t fit into. This map speaks to the incompleteness and liminality that this county is perched in. 




Him
Discarded plastic plants, cotton thread
11" x 11" 
2025







In Divisible
Discarded American Flags
10ft x 2.5 ft
2025








DVI Clay Coil Pot
Discarded DVI and HDMI cords, wire, 
15" x 14"
2024 


Applying tradition of craft to technological detritus.