Island Talk 18
9th April 2025
ON COLLABORATION
How do collaborations work? What can collaboration do for your practice – how does it expand it? We’re delighted to have brought bring together photographers, creative director and a designer to discuss these topics and the joy of collaboration!
Aisling Farinella
Aisling Farinella is a stylist, creative director and consultant working across fashion and cultural platforms. A sought after stylist, her work is featured in prominent Irish and international publications, working closely with leading Irish artistic talents, designers and clients. Her individual styling aesthetic is conveyed through a naturalistic approach and a love for elevating portraiture through fashion.
Aisling was Consulting Fashion Editor at Irish Tatler ( 2021-2024), a Board Director of the IDI and course lead for the CFA NCAD Professional Diploma in Fashion Communication. Her personal projects include a role as co-creative director and editor of Thread magazine (2011 - 2018), which positioned a new era of Irish fashion industry talent on an international platform.
Linda Brownlee
Published in 2016, ‘I Zii’ is a collaboration between Linda Brownlee and Aisling Farinella. The series follows the landscape and lives of Farinella's Sicilian relatives living in the mountain town of Gangi.
Linda Brownlee’s work moves between the worlds of portraiture, fashion, and documentary. Her work is concerned with the intricate energy between people and place. Linda's work has been shown in group shows at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Tate Liverpool, and Photo Museum Ireland.
Her solo show ‘Idle Topography’ exhibited at Hangtough Gallery in 2019. In 2010, she self published her first photo book Achill. Following this, Hydrangea Etc was published by Design group AAD in 2014. And in 2016, she published ‘I Zii’, in collaboration with Aisling Farinella.
Her photography has featured in publications such as British Vogue, The New York Times, The FT and Guardian magazines. Commercial clients include Bally, Miu Miu, Cos, and Roksanda.
Doreen Kilfeather
Doreen Kilfeather is a Dublin-based photographer specialising in portraiture and fashion photography.
A deep understanding of light and shadow, and a sense of intimacy and connection define her work. Her personal projects focus on her family and friends and their children. She returns to these communities of friends each year to document the feeling of being a child, an adolescent, a young adult, in portraits that capture both the person and a sense of the place they occupy.
Her work has been featured in publications such as Irish Tatler, Image, Cara, The Gloss, Boys by Girls and Faire magazine.
Brian Teeling
Brian is an Irish artist whose practice explores queer identity, memory, and absence through photography, sculpture, and text-based works. His work engages with themes of loss, trauma, and spectral presence, drawing on concepts of hauntology and speculative history to interrogate the traces left behind by queer lives and histories. Teeling’s practice resists traditional representation, using material instability, layered imagery, and immersive installations to explore the intersections of personal and collective memory. His work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Ireland, and the Crawford Art Gallery.
