Ashlin McAndrew is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores ruptures and sites of disconnection in contemporary life— disconnection from our bodies, community, and from the earth. Her work serves as both indictment and antidote, questioning the structures that strip us...
Read MoreAshlin McAndrew is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores ruptures and sites of disconnection in contemporary life— disconnection from our bodies, community, and from the earth. Her work serves as both indictment and antidote, questioning the structures that strip us of our humanity while seeking pathways toward collective healing.
Working with found and discarded materials that carry their own histories, McAndrew transforms overlooked objects—disintegrated clothing, discarded plastic plants, clay foraged from specific sites—into works that reveal hidden stories. Through slow, deliberate hand-stitching, weaving, and assemblage, she recontextualizes the mundane materials of our present moment as acts of resistance against disposable culture. Recent works include the Post-Colonial Quilt, created from synthetic plant materials that examine our culture's tendency to replace living systems with convenient imitations.
McAndrew explores the intersections of humanity, ecology, and transformative listening. With a Master's in Material Futures from Central Saint Martins and a BA in Studio Art & Film from Vanderbilt, her practice bridges materiality and somatic awareness to investigate how art can become a form of collective healing—using found materials, performance, and personal storytelling to reconnect us with what's been lost in our environments, systems, and ourselves.
