Aisling Phelan
Multi-Disciplinary Visual Artist
︎ ︎ ︎ ︎
Aisling Phelan is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist working across AI, 3D animation, video, sculpture, virtual reality, and live interactive technologies. Her work delves into the complex relationship between our online and offline identities and aims to highlight the ethical concerns and vulnerabilities of digital representation.
Heavily concerned with the body, Phelan explores the intricacies of corporeal identity and its relationship with technology. By examining the inherent losses that occur in both physically replicating and digitally reconstructing her own body, she investigates the abstraction, fragmentation, and validity of our multiple identities. Ultimately, her practice questions the impact of current digital infrastructures on our social and mental well-being, and what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological advancement and pervasive social media influence.
In 2025, Phelan’s work ‘Goodbye Body’ will be screened on Europe’s largest digital art screen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her latest work ‘Surrogate Bodies’ was commissioned by Beta Festival and exhibited at the Digital Hub in Dublin. In 2023, Phelan created live installations for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Rua Red and the National Concert Hall. In 2022, her degree show ‘Dual Reality’ was shortlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards and included in their annual exhibition. This work was also exhibited at 126 Gallery for the Galway International Arts Festival 2022.
Phelan has been interviewed by RTE, The Irish Times, Dublin InQuirer, District Magazine and Totally Dublin, and her work has been selected for publications in Vice, Dublin Art Book Fair, Douglas Hyde Gallery, and other international publications. She is a co-curator of D.A.T.A, the Dublin Art and Technology Association, producer of Base Dublin, and the founder of the Digital Artists Ireland Online Discord Channel.