BRITTLE
AIDEEN FARRELL
MIXED MEDIA:
Etching on porcelain paper clay, various metals, and oxides
2022
Brittle examines processes of decay, spatial ruination, and regrowth and imaginesdesigns of possible spaces as fossilised ruins. This work takes its starting points from drawings and images of stilled, defunct, or reshaped infrastructure: Railways, building sites, greenways, and canals. The work consists of steel plate etchings on porcelain paper clay and the etching plates themselves. Oxides and the copper sulphate mordant were used with etching ink. Plates were also left to rust and this rust transferred onto wet clay. Brittle was created during a recent residency at the Cork Printmakers and National Sculpture Factory. This residency focused on material experimentation in the intersections of etching and ceramics. The work was made with support from the Arts Council of Ireland and Fingal County Council.
Brittle
AIDEEN
FARRELL
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aideenfarrell9@aideen-farrell
Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based installation artist. Her work examines processes of spatial ruination. Her practice critically examines narratives of linear progress, planning ideologies, and dichotomised understandings of the built environment and the natural landscape. She creates installations consisting of objects and structures of plaster, steel, found objects, and ceramics.
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; 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 was 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 Sculpture Award for 2021. She most recently undertook a joint residency at The National Sculpture Factory & Cork Printmakers.