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Aisling (she/they) is an artist and curator based in London, UK.

Their practice moves across archival materials, movement, video and sound to generate dialogues around labour, social and material histories, and collective resistance.

Working with often-overlooked historical materials, Aisling develops projects that transform fragments - like blueprints, factory diagrams, or shared memories - into choreographic scores, workshops, and site-specific performances.

Through collaboration and movement, their work investigates how embodied practices can challenge systems of control, offering spaces for resistance, repair, and collective organising.

Aisling is currently an Arts Programmer at UAL’s Students’ Union (Arts SU), where they work with students to develop exhibitions and events rooted in artist development, community organising and collective care. They are also a GMB Union Rep, working to build solidarity across the arts and education sectors.

 
b. Nottingham, UK.














EDUCATION


2015 - 2020 - Edinburgh College of Art, MA (Hons) Fine Art & Art History

2018 - LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium



AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

 
UNIDEE Residency: Unfolding Ecosystems: Institutional practices from a networked perspective, Biella, Italy 2024

PADA Residency: Barreiro, Portugal 2024

2023-24 - LUX Critical Forum, London

2021-22 - New Midlands Group Associate, Nottingham

RSA Friends Award 2022

RSA New Contemporaries 2020

University of Edinburgh Degree Show Purchase Prize 2020

Aesthetica Art Prize (short list) 2020

Unviversity of Edinburgh Travel & Equipment Bursary 2020




EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES


2025
Perennial, Haarlem Artspace, Derbyshire


2024
PADA 46, Barreiro, Portugal

LUX Critical Forum Sharing, London

2022
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Not Happy’, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
From Silk to Silicon, Sebastian Koseda, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham (performance)


2021
Share Bears, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
Final, not Over, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London
Nottingham Asylum Project, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham
Ways of Protest, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Made It, Short Supply, Manchester
ALT-D, Zembla Gallery, Hawick
Field Test, Silvermine Mountains, N. Ireland

























Photograph by Jazz Swali, 2022













CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2025
Gathering, Arts SU, The Bomb Factory, London

2024
RENTERS!, Arts SU, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London

2023
Gestures of Resistance, QUAD Extra Gallery Spaces, Derby, UK & 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China
Celebrating Community, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, London

2022
ASTRAL VILLAGE sloooowwww, Roo Dhissou & Sahjan Kooner, Riverlights, Derby

2021
PLAYGROUND, DARP, Artcore Gallery, Derby
GET THE DARK OUT, Lisa Selby & Dudley, Artcore Gallery, Derby
Error & Power, Naho Matsuda & Neale Willis, Artcore Gallery, Derby
Present Tense Future Perfect? Kelly O’Brien & Thomas Wynn,
Artcore Gallery, Derby
Circling the Square - Visions of an Unmade City, Ryan Heath & Katy Hawkins, Artcore Gallery, Derby
52 Cameras in 52 Weeks, Tony Kemplan, Artcore Gallery, Derby