Designwork 09

Participants

Elliat Rich
Elliat Rich is an artist, producer, researcher, experimenter and resource developer, plus other modes of practice that sit within her process as designer. She is based within the complex socio-bio-historical ecology of Alice Springs (Mparntwe). For Rich the design process is a creative translation between materials and culture, alive to a broader context of power and social value. Lead by curiosity, enriched through wonder and always calling on the possibilities of the imagination. Rich works with many distinguished clients and collaborators within central Australia and nationally. Her practice covers cross-cultural resources, exhibition design, public art and furniture design. Her limited-editioned object-orientated explorations are held in numerous public and private collections.

Ashley Eriksmoen
Ashley Eriksmoen’s practice straddles sculpture, contemporary craft, and critical design, veering away from narrow disciplinary boundaries in order to expose connections between natural resource extraction, consumer waste, deforestation and wildlife habitat reductions. She works predominantly in salvaged timber, appropriating discarded wood furniture to construct her works that present as hybridised forms of furniture, plants and animals. Eriksmoen was the winner of the Clarence Prize for excellence in furniture design (2021), the winner of the Australian Furniture Design Award (2022) and recipient of the Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitational Award at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (2022). Her work is shown internationally, was included in the seminal exhibit Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking (Philadelphia, 2019) and the 2023 NGV Triennial (Melbourne). Her work is in many private and public collections including The RISD Museum (Providence, USA), Museum of Art in Wood (Philadelphia, USA), The National Arboretum (Canberra) and the NGV (Melbourne, Australia).