Mentoring | Artist Development
One-to-one support for artists and creative practitioners
A focused 90-minute session for artists and creative practitioners who want to develop a project, clarify their direction or find a way forward with work that has become uncertain, complex or stalled.
Aishling offers a thoughtful, direct and responsive space in which to step back from the work, recognise its underlying patterns and identify practical next steps.
Aishling’s experience includes mentoring through Minding Creative Minds and providing individual guidance on photography-project development.
What is included
Advance review of your submitted project material
One focused 90-minute online conversation
Discussion and feedback on your agreed questions
A short written summary with next steps
The Project Development Session
This session may be useful if you are:
- developing a new project or body of work;
- feeling stuck or uncertain about what comes next;
- working through a project that has lost direction;
- trying to connect ideas, research and visual material;
- considering how to edit, or communicate your work;
- moving through a transition in your creative practice.
The conversation is shaped around you, your work and the questions currently arising within your practice. It is not based on a fixed formula or a prescriptive idea of what your work should become.
Before the session
You will be invited to send:
- a description of the project you would like to explore;
- a selection of images, links or supporting material;
- any particular areas on which you would like feedback.
This allows Aishling to familiarise herself and spend time with the work before your mentoring session. The amount of material and submission deadline are agreed in advance, so the review remains focused on the project and questions for this session.
Your project material and mentoring discussions are treated confidentially.
Your work will not be shared publicly without your permission.
During the session
Together, you will look closely at the work and explore the ideas, patterns and possibilities emerging within it. Depending on your needs, the conversation may address project structure, visual language, research, editing, creative direction, documentation or the relationship between concept, process and outcome.
The purpose is not to impose a solution, but to help you see the work more clearly and make confident decisions about what happens next.
After the session
You will receive a short written summary of the central points discussed, with the agreed next steps or questions to carry forward.
These sessions provide artist-led creative and professional reflection. They are not therapy, counselling or clinical support, and they do not guarantee funding, publication, representation or exhibition outcomes. Ongoing support or additional review outside the session is not included unless agreed separately. The timing of the written summary is agreed when booking.
Session details
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: Online
Fee: €180
Limited availability each month.
Booking, payment and cancellation terms are provided before a session is confirmed. Sessions may be rescheduled once with at least 48 hours’ notice. Access requirements and reasonable adjustments can be discussed when arranging the session.
Experience & Approach
Aishling Muller is a visual artist working across photography, moving image, performance, installation, socially engaged practice and environmental fieldwork.
Drawing on more than twenty years of creative and professional experience, she supports artists in recognising the deeper structure of their work, navigating uncertainty and developing approaches that remain specific to their own voice and way of working.
Enquire about a session
To enquire, email Aishling with a few sentences about your work, the project or question you would like to discuss, and your general availability.