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I am a mixed media sculptor who works with found natural objects. I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, and now live in New Orleans, LA. My work is an exploration of decomposition and recomposition using bones, leaves, branches, shells, quills, teeth, and thorns. Combining man-made ideas with items from the natural world, I explore the tensions between life and disintegration, sanctuary and peril. These tensions emerge through the creation of hollows, spaces, or barriers- places to hide or to live.

My process has recently begun emphasizing site-specificity. As a maker, I am constantly trying to push myself in terms of scale, materials, and depth of narrative. I want my objects to interact visually and physically with their immediate location. It is my goal for the work to have a sense of unity and balance within its environment. This includes considerations of scale, color, supports and surfaces. My sculptures carry a distinctive found-object aesthetic and a narrative nature. I believe these characteristics make them interactive and memorable for many different people. My works are accessible and engaging to a wide audience, inviting the viewer to consider both image and surface to create their own narrative.

Pridmore received her BFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She has been artist-in-residence at the Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany in 2014, and an Arts Council of New Orleans’ Civic Arts Fellow in 2020. 

You can read about Ashley here:

http://wwno.org/post/inside-arts-giant-seahorse-heads-cbd-eclipsed-opens-musaica-season-finale

http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2018/save-us-from-ourselves-ashley-pridmores-st-kampos

https://gardenandgun.com/articles/ashley-pridmore-new-orleans-artist/