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Aideen Farrell

Biography

Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based installation artist. Aideen graduated from NCAD in 2017 with a BA in Fine Art Painting and Visual Culture. Recent exhibitions include solo shows; A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects/Studios in 2019 and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre in 2018, and group shows; In Cahoots with the Earth at A4 Sounds, and Halfway to Falling at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in 2021. She awarded the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme from 2018 to 2021, the Arts Council’s Professional Development Award 2020, Agility Award 2021, and Visual Arts Bursary 2021. She was awarded the Dublin City Council Residency at St Patrick’s Lodge 2018-2019 and Fire Station Artists’ Studios Graduate Award in 2017 and Sculpture Award for 2021.

 

iAssembled pieces in the Fire Station Artist Studios project space 2021. -Porcelain and black crank paper clay, black underglaze, brick fragments, steel bar, wire, rust Assembled pieces in the Fire Station Artist Studios project space 2021. -Porcelain and black crank paper clay, black underglaze, brick fragments, steel bar, wire, rust
iShowroom at Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar in 2018. Installation shot. -Plaster casts, MDF, timber, concrete, found materials, glass, drawing on paper, acrylic paint, wire. Showroom at Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar in 2018. Installation shot. -Plaster casts, MDF, timber, concrete, found materials, glass, drawing on paper, acrylic paint, wire.
iCríoch, 2021. Temporary installation in collaboration with Emily Waszak, site accessed off the Royal Canal near Broombridge Luas stop, Dublin 7. Pictured is part of this installation; -Steel stand, wire basket, porcelain paper clay fragments with rust transfer. Críoch, 2021. Temporary installation in collaboration with Emily Waszak, site accessed off the Royal Canal near Broombridge Luas stop, Dublin 7. Pictured is part of this installation; -Steel stand, wire basket, porcelain paper clay fragments with rust transfer.
Artist Statement

My work examines processes of spatial ruination. I explore the histories, marketing, and experience navigating defunct or transformed infrastructure. My practice critically examines narratives of linear progress, planning ideologies, and dichotomised understandings of the built environment and the natural landscape. It involves cyclical processes of responding to places through gathering, making, drawing, installing, and documentation. I create objects and structures of plaster, steel, found objects, and ceramics. These act as models, parts of construction, and fragments or ruins of spaces. The work is installed in response to its environment through makeshift assembly, in a way that plays with weight, balance and precarity.

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