Ailish Treanor (born 1995) is an artist living in Newcastle Upon Tyne who works across sculpture, drawing and performance to camera.

Her recent work involves making small paper sculptures that are inspired by botanical shapes and also relate to the curves and lines of female anatomy. These sculptures are sometimes made to be worn by a person such as the piece seen in ‘Untitled (Mask) 2020’. In this work the sculpture sits over the wearer’s face as a mask, and the tongue of the wearer holds the sculpture in place, blurring the margins between person/body and object.

Treanor is interested in how a physical body can be transformed into an image and how this act of self-objectification can be empowering and react to the politicised state of the female body.