Aisling Jelinski is a visual artist from Minnesota, now based between Ireland and the US. She earned her MFA from Burren College of Art (National University of Ireland Galway) in 2021. Like many at the start of the pandemic, Aisling began to clear out her closet and realized she’d amassed a lot of paper ephemera over the years. Finding it difficult to continue her painting practice that summer, she began to experiment using these collected materials. Collage became a meditative creative outlet for her during that time, and continues to serve as an important prong of her studio practice.