Aisling Phelan
Multi-Disciplinary Visual Artist
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Aisling Phelan is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, working across 3D animation, photography, video, virtual reality and live interactive technologies. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 2022 with a First Class Honours in Fine Art Media.
Phelan has a keen interest in exploring the intersection of art and technology. Her work is primarily concerned with the exploration of the digital self and the potential for this to further our understanding of our physical selves. In exploring humanity’s relationship with technology, and the merging of our online and offline identities, her practice questions what is lost in the digital reconstruction of the human form.
Phelan’s main interest is how art can be used as a tool to inform the public about current digital infrastructure and its effect on our social and mental well-being.
In 2019, Phelan staged a live virtual reality performance in an Open Studio in IMMA, in response to their ‘Desire’ exhibition, and was part of the Temple Bar Gallery Young Art Writers Programme. In 2020, Phelan had her photograms included in a digital showreel for the Dora Maar UNIQLO Tate Lates Display in the Tate Modern and gained a place on the Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum. Phelan has been interviewed by the Dublin InQuirer, District Magazine, 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 part of Terrarista TV collective, an artist-run online streaming channel based in Kassel, Germany and is also a co-curator of D.A.T.A, the Dublin Art and Technology Association.