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Biography 

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


Copyright  Ashlin  McAndrew 2025






Objects of Care

 moss, discarded scaffolding netting,
stones found in London
2021

While living in London, I collected objects from the city—scaffolding netting as evidence of the city herself, while foraged moss and stone were proof of nature persisting even within this environment. This is how I felt at the time—longing for connection and contact with life amidst the surrounding frozenness of concrete.  I use elements of this city to heal from the dysregulation she causes me. In this ongoing series, I continue to reuse detritus so it becomes soothing and connecting rather than merely evidence of the environment that disconnects me from my own nature. 



Material Memoryfilm shot on super8mm
2022

This project explores our body's relationship to land and place. Following Brexit, Ireland became divided into two separate countries with unwanted borders. I became curious about how these barriers may also manifest within us—when we disconnect from native land, we disconnect from essential parts of ourselves. I explored this by inhabiting different corners of the island, foraging soil and clay from disparate places, as if collecting lost parts of myself. The clay melded together to create objects for a metaphorical ceremony, attempting to reconcile old divides. 




Body ToolSpinning a ball of yarn in 7 and 26 minutes:
Juxtaposing the use of a yarn swift and spinning winder with the use of my own body

I'm passionate about making as embodiment. Technology inhibits our physical engagement with the world—we've outsourced movements to machines, making simple acts seem complex. When separated from technology, we feel disempowered.
        While machines promised more time and energy, we've lost meaning by avoiding deep engagement. We optimize for efficiency yet feel empty.
        I engage my body simply, recognizing motion creates rather than depletes energy. These repetitive movements are experiments and small acts of protest in a world disconnected from what it creates. 



Contact Kit
Birchbox, stone, moss, vine, plywood box, instructions
2021

In the woods of Vermont, Angus and I fashioned a kit of earth objects designed to mediate a new way of engaging with the environment. This exhibition, Land Chapters, was curated by Abbey Meaker & Este Puerta. 


Hangers
two-channel film projection, archival footage, wire hangers, assorted hangers

This two-channel film installation addresses the oppression women face both physically and psychologically. The installation is two-sided — alluring and hypnotic on the surface, while the dark underbelly alludes to the reality women face: being denied the right to choose while fighting for body autonomy in a patriarchal world.





Split Persona

Single channel film
2017

Taking apart Ingmar Bergman’s Persona only to piece it back together again. The fractured interpretation aims to amplify the felt sense of Bergman’s film — highlighting the complexity of relationships by dismembering the film frame itself.




Uniform Truth
single channel film projection,
9 screen printed cotton bags,
2017

a single-channel film projected onto nine screen printed bags — fashion items stripped of their aesthetic, left to reveal text: a description of the psychological experience taking place within the shopper. The bag's repetitive nature represents uniformity within products being advertised and the individuals who buy them. As the woman's own image echoes behind her, she too is seemingly mass produced.