Auryn Full Circle (2021-2023) is an adult fairy tale. It is a blended self-portrait, performance, landscape, and documentary narrative which focuses on themes of death, rebirth, and renewal in our inner, outer, and environmental landscapes. It depicts universal cycles of duality, resembling the mythical tale of renewal of the phoenix as it dies, transforms and is reborn into new life. |
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Aishling captures her self-portraits through live performance in a vintage costume. In September 2021 this costume was coated with a layer of ashes taken from a 2500-year-old olive tree, lost to the fires in Northern Evia, Greece. |
To date Aishling has received financial support from Westmeath County Council's Regional Arts Office through their annual artist bursary as well as receiving kind donations from the public through an online funding campaign.
Aishling was awarded an Agility Award from the Irish Art Council in 2022 to finish shooting this work.
During the Summer of 2023, Aishling was awarded funding for a mentorship program from the Irish Arts Council's Arts & Disability Connect. She will now work with artist and educator Laurie Legrand of the Learning Garden School and the Laboratory of Living Arts to develop the design of a hand crafted fine art Photography book.
Many thanks for the kind support to date, it has been crucial to allow the work to happen. And If you would like to support the work you can find out more information at this active Go Fund Campaign.
Behind the Scenes
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Spectre - An Excerpt
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June 2023 - I-Inversion at Hudpromloft, Kharkiv, Ukraine Group Photo Exhibition presenting alternative visions & perceptions of reality, emotions & considerations of self as part of this world. Curated by Vlad Nikorchuk & Marta Levytska. |
March 2022 - Hérna at SÍM’s Korpúlfsstaðir, Reykjavik Group photo exhibition by members of FíSL, Iceland &, Pohjoinen Valokuvakeskus | Northern Photographic Centre. Oulu Finland Curated by Mike Watson. For more information |
May 2022 - From Ashes at Corinth Exposed Festival, Greece Solo Exhibition at Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth as part of the international photography festival. Work from Sept & Nov 2021 Curated by Aishling Muller For more information |
As part of the therapeutic process of change, which we are all, called to undergo, one of the main steps is to die to yourself... It means unlocking the chains that bind us within the self, it means letting go. - Artist Sean O Dwyer
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