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Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen's work addresses the gap between the living world and the built world, suggesting animate and sentient qualities in constructed furnituresque objects. Eriksmoen’s work also addresses issues of sustainability, natural resources, consumerism, and waste as they relate to furniture production. In her current body of work, Feral: Rewilding Furniture, Eriksmoen utilises discarded wooden furniture, reconfiguring components into unlikely, mutated forms reminiscent of tropical flora and fauna.  The structural mash-ups, derived from a primordial soup of abandoned wood furniture parts, will occupy and re-wild the modern interior, challenging Cartesian notions of order, utility, and the planned universe.

Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen is is the Head of the Furniture Workshop at the Australian National University’s School of Art and was recently the Windgate Fellowship Artist-in-Residence at San Diego State University’s Furniture Design & Woodworking Program.