Aislinn Connolly/Aislinn Ní Chonghaile (Australia) is an artist living and working on Gadigal land. She holds a BFA (2023) and an MFA (2025) in painting from the National Art School. Raised between rural Ireland and urban Australia, she was born in Sydney’s western suburbs. Now based in the inner-west, this diverse and eclectic area strongly influences her research interests.

Working across painting and drawing, she creates artworks that facilitate encounters with alternative cosmologies and speculative realities. In 2026 she exhibited her MFA body of work "I had too much to dream last night" at Airspace Projects (Marrickville, NSW). She has also exhibited paintings and drawings in group shows: EARTH (April 2026) at Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt (NSW), Other Wordly (March 2026) at Newcastle Arts Space, Newcastle (NSW) and PROCESS.ED (February 2026) at Articulate Project Space.

Connolly is engaged with contemporary art on an international level and travelled to Germany in 2026 to undertake a masterclass with the Australian artist Emily Hunt at the Berlin Art Institute.

She is the recipient of the Creative Futures Award (2025), the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Scholarship (2023) and the Parkers Sydney Fine Art Drawing Award (2023).