Workshops
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Aishling Muller develops practical, highly participatory workshops for artists and creative practitioners, combining technical knowledge, creative enquiry and more than two decades of professional practice.
Workshops are informal, responsive and practice-led. Rather than applying a single formula, participants are encouraged to experiment, ask questions and develop approaches suited to their own work, experience and way of thinking.
Muller creates relaxed, non-judgmental learning environments where practical skills sit alongside conversation, reflection and shared experience. Sessions are structured enough to provide clear learning while remaining responsive to the people in the room
Formats can range from full-day workshops to two-day programmes, short intensive series and guest sessions within residencies, retreats and wider cultural programmes.
Workshops can be commissioned as established programmes or adapted in dialogue with organisers to suit a particular audience, context or theme.
Workshop areas include:
Photography for Artists | Documenting Practice
Practical training helping artists photograph and document their own work confidently and professionally for portfolios, websites, exhibitions, funding applications and other opportunities.
Camera Confidence
Understanding manual camera controls, exposure, available light, composition and image-making in a clear and accessible way.
Self-Portraiture in Natural Light
Exploring self-portraiture, presence, environment and natural light as tools for creative expression and visual enquiry.
Visual Storytelling
Developing relationships between image, sequence, narrative, perspective and ways of seeing.
Creative Confidence
Exploring creativity as a practical tool for expression, experimentation, adaptability and developing trust in individual creative instinct.
"Aishling allowed us to be ourselves in the room, to express and to ask as many questions as we needed - which had a knock-on effect of great participation, interest and motivation."
- Jean Moran Irish Hand Weaves
Recent Collaborators
Live Art Ireland
SEEDS Iceland
The Red Cross, Iceland
Digital Film School, Ireland
CoMotion Youth Film Festival, Ireland
TAP+ Teacher Artist Partnerships
University of Iceland
Maynooth University
Arts Offices across Ireland
Local Enterprise Offices
Creative Frame, Ireland
LMETB, Ireland
Creative Ireland
Long-Term Project Development
Supporting artists to recognise patterns, build relationships between ideas and allow sustained bodies of work to develop over time.
Artist Development
Practice-led sessions around direction, creative process, documentation, professional development and sustaining an individual artistic practice.
Field-Based Practice
Exploring observation, place, documentation and sustained encounter as methods for developing work in and through landscape.
"A wonderful, hands-on and informative workshop with a lovely atmosphere. Aishling’s passion and clarity made learning photography a real pleasure."
- Vanessa, workshop participant