Auryn Full Circle
Ongoing Contemporary Fine Art Project


Since May 2021 Aishling has been working on a series of contemporary fine art performance self-portraits on the themes of death, rebirth and renewal set within backdrops of the personal/societal/collective impact from recent years and situated within the environmental transformation from recent forest fires in Greece as well as the lush forest landscapes in the midlands of Ireland.  ​This work is currently being developed into an interactive exhibition installation as well as fine art book.


​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. 
The work has a pre-Raphaelite and documentary visual edge which is contectualised with short narrative verses. It follows the journey of Auryn, beginning in a lush green and fruitful landscape, traveling through a surreal, desolate and dangerous woodland and finally emerging in a vast open landscape markedly different from the place where she began. 
 
This journey references Josephs Campbells Hero's Journey and John Bunyan’s, Pilgrims Process. It is heavily inspired by Jung’s personal alchemical journey through creative explorations documented in the Red Book and Frida Kahlo's self-reflective works with self-portraiture. 


​ 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.
 

Selected Images From Auryn Full Circle

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

Spectre - An Excerpt

Previous Exhibitions & Presentations of Works in Progress


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.
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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
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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