Aideen Farrell

Aideen Farrell is a Dublin-based artist. She works with found materials, clay, drawing, and photography. Farrell gathers materials and detritus while following routes of canals and disused railways. She focuses on these sites’ relations to ideas of ruin, extraction, and transformation.
Aideen completed her BA in Fine Art at NCAD in 2017 and MA from TU Dublin in 2024. Exhibitions include solo shows; Brittle to Look Back at Custom House Gallery (2023), A Weight of Windows at Pallas Projects/Studios (2019) and Showroom Linenhall Arts Centre (2018), and recent group shows; Waystation at the Complex (2024), Gaffer Tape in Phibsborough Tower (2023), The Stars are in the Earth at A4 Sounds (2022). She was awarded the Fingal County Council Artist Support Scheme (2018-2022), the Arts Council’s Agility Award (2021), the Visual Arts Bursary (2021, 2023), and the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Award in 2021.