On Wed 6th Aug 18:30-19:30 we’ll be joined by Aideen Farrell  as the next artist to share in our artist talk series! Come along to learn about Aideen’s practice. If you are interested, please RSVP below. These talks are open to the public so invite your friends along!

Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based artist working in sculpture and installation. Her work responds to industrial landscapes and infrastructural ruins, focusing on processes of ruin, extraction, and transformation. Much of this work began with cycling along the Royal Canal, where animal and plant life intertwine with industrial remnants and are dredged up in heaps. She has also explored routes such as disused railway lines and a sunken Iron Age road in a bog. She often works with found materials, clay,  drawing, and photography.

Farrell engages with remnants through cyclical processes—gathering, sorting, documenting, making, and assembling. She gathers fragments and materials by bike, in various states of decay, and then works with them as they break down. She creates clay works in response that take the form of matrix, dirt, and skeletal architectures. They express becoming and breaking down and respond to things being submerged, dug or dredged, and displayed. She combines found and made objects into personal collections and taxonomies. She is interested in countering the aesthetics of preservation and fixity within collection and museum display conventions. Her work highlights the tensions between preciousness, dirt, and precarity, as well as the futility of solitary efforts to preserve or create small, self-contained worlds.

Aideen Farrell completed her BA in Fine Art at NCAD in 2017 and her MA from TU Dublin in 2024. She is a member of A4 Sounds artist studios in Dublin. Her exhibitions include solo shows; Brittle to Look Back at Custom House Gallery (2023),  A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects/Studios (2019) and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre (2018), and recent group shows; The Cosmos, The Earth and Us at A4 sounds (2025), Waystation at the Complex (2024), Gaffer Tape in Phibsborough Tower (2023). She was awarded the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme for 2025, the Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023), and the Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) Residential Award for 2025.

Website: http://www.aideenfarrellart.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aideenfarrellart/