Central St Martins Masters in Fine Art graduate Aisling Drennan is a contemporary abstract painter whose work is rooted in the material curiosities and playfulness of oil paint.
Her practice is influenced by the abstract expressionist movement of the 1950s and the expressive content of her own experience as a former professional Irish dancer with Riverdance. Artists such as Joan Mitchel, Sean Scully and Willem de Kooning have informed her development arriving at its current balance between chaos and structure.
Drennan was the 2020 Arts Bursary recipient from the Women's Irish Network in conjunction with the UK Irish Embassy and was a selected artist for the Royal Ulster Academy's 139th exhibition. She was the 2019 artist in residence at Cill Rialaig Artists Centre, IRE and in 2018 was shortlisted for the John Moore's Painting Prize, Jacksons Open painting prize and the Visual Art Open.
She is the recipient of the Freyer award for excellence in contemporary painting from the Royal Dublin Society of Arts and was Fujitsu's featured artist for their 2017 global media campaign. Drennan has been noted by State magazine as “one to watch”.