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Ashlin is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of humanity, ecology and transformative listening—investigating how art can become a form of collective healing through found materials 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
PracticeFounder | EartHouse
2024 - Present
- Founded a community of like-minded artists, designers, and free thinkers with a shared vision for a more equitable & holistic future
Board Member & Teacher | Santa Fe Improv
2024 - Present
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Supporting community growth and connection through spontaneous social engagement and the practice of play
Copyright Ashlin McAndrew 2025
photo by Brad Trone
StatementMy work is an indictment of the structures and systems that strip us of our humanity—the very systems that have disconnected us from our bodies, from community, and from the earth. I explore these ruptures and sites of disconnection, questioning how we arrived here while seeking pathways toward collective healing. My work emerges from a personal experience of being born in a culture that seems to fear nature and distrust the body, that instead places its faith in a technocracy. Rather than stopping at critique, I seek to offer small antidotes—holding space for beauty, making, material, connection, and story.
I work with found materials that carry history—disintegrated clothes, discarded plastic plants, clay foraged from specific sites, found footage cut from mass media. My process is about deep listening, tuning into the materials themselves to uncover the hidden stories they hold. The slowness of my craft is itself an act of resistance against disposable culture. I take the mundane materials of our present moment and recontextualize them through hand-stitching, weaving, and assemblage to make visible what we've been taught to overlook. Each imperfect stitch deliberately rejects machine-like precision, returning to the lost art of hand crafting.
What I’m reading
right now
One-Dimensional Man - Herbert Marcuse
The Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development - Dan Chodorkoff
Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta
Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken
The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff
Birth as an American Rite of Passage - Robbie Davis-Floyd
Body of the World - Sam Taylor