ARTIST BIO
Central Saint Martins's master in Fine Art graduate Aisling Drennan is a contemporary abstract painter. Drennan's painting practice is concerned with stone wall formations, drawn to their heaviness of form yet lightness of appearance.
Studies of stone walls are abstracted and etched into layers of paintwork - constructed, deconstructed, scratched, rubbed and finally reapplied to form a new skin and begin the process over; a method of finding and losing the painting until visually robust.
Most recently Drennan’s work was selected for Gordan Ramsay’s new restaurant in the Savoy Hotel, London (2021). Her work has been shortlisted for the John Moore’s painting prize, Jackson’s Open painting prize and the Visual Art Open (2018). She was Fujitsu’s featured artist for a global media campaign (2017) & was a selected artist for London Irish Art (2015) which showcased the progression of Irish art in the UK. She won the Freyer award for excellence in contemporary painting from the Royal Dublin Society of Arts (2011) & has been noted by State magazine as “one to watch”.
