About — Ashlin McAndrew Art

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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.

Exhibitions

Intimacy, 94Gallery, Chiang Mai, 2025 (upcoming)

PreTense, Studio 51, Santa Fe, 2025

Recycle Santa Fe, Convention Center, Santa Fe, 2024

Material Futures, Granary Building, London, 2022

Material Propositions, Granary Building, London, 2021

Land Chapters, Artist Field, Richmond, Vermont, 2021

Design for Non-Human Life, Central Saint Martins, London, 2020

Margaret Stonewall Woodridge Hamblet Show, Space 204, Nashville, 2017

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

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

Uniform Truth, Space 204, Nashville, 2016

Workshops &
Performances

Body Tool, Santa Fe, 2023 [performance]

Material Emoting, King’s Cross, London, 2021 [workshop]

Undoings, Lakeville, Connecticut, 2020 [performance]

Education

MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins, 2022

BA Studio Art, Vanderbilt University, 2017

Professional Certifications

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing International, 2025

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification, The Embody Lab, 2021

photo by Brad Trone

Statement

My 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