Aaron Wilkinson (April 28th 1974-) was born in Dublin, Ireland. He is an Inter-disciplinary Artist who is most well known for his critically acclaimed “More Pricks Than Kicks” debut recording (2001). He is the son of theatrical singer Colm Wilkinson and has been romantically linked to Lisa Dwan, Eva Birthistle and Andrea Corr.
He has released nine records and performed to an estimated TV audience of 260 million people on New Years eve with the Jools Holland Band and The Corrs.
He won the Louis Mac Neice music competion in Europe in 1995.
He has appeared numerous times on television in North America and Europe.
He has written for Film, Televison and Theatre. He has copyrighted over 700 songs in the last six years.
He resides in Hampstead Heath in London.

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Extract from Art Forum magazine article.
In order to write about such an innovative talent as Aaron Wilkinson, you must immediately feel the poignant inadequacies of your own artistic failings. Experimenting beyond the traditional boundaries of words and music, Wilkinson collapses any ill fated attempts at reductive commentary before they struggle to begin. The sensitivity with which Wilkinson expresses the grueling complexities of everyday existence pushes the listener to abandon the restrictions of a cerebral form of understanding, and invest in a better pair of ears.

Blurring the disciplinary distinctions between what is traditionally expected in both literary and musical frameworks, Wilkinson maps an unexpected terrain. Here musical ideas and literary experiences are allowed to come to the fore in a way hitherto unimagined.


Wilkinson constructs carefully for his audience a multiplicity of transitory yet wholly tangible spaces, in which we may imagine our desires fulfilled and our disappointments acknowledged. The form of expression in which Wilkinson engages is one which evades all previously established categorical definitions. Through this innovative operation he forces his audience to question their understanding of accepted models of knowledge production.

The task of attempting to evaluate Wilkinson’s interdisciplinary artistic contribution through a purely textual analysis is rendered redundant by the stark impotence of words isolated on a page. Wilkinson opens up to us a means of expression which demands from us a similar creativity in our critical responses.

We must listen to this writer like a book and read this artist like a painting. We must allow the notes of his sophisticated chromatic schema to resonate within us as they simultaneously reverberate out wards to establish links within an artistic trajectory which remains beyond our current comprehension.

It is within Wilkinson’s performance work that his audience is allowed to experience a more fulfilled awareness of the implications of his interdisciplinary focus. His voice sometimes almost inaudible as breadth and at other times shockingly percussive, jolts the listener from their position of passive observer and demands their full engagement in the narrative which he unfolds.

It is not surprising then that Wilkinson has also produced a large body of photographic work, penned a screenplay on Samuel Beckett or been involved in a series of performance based projects. He is fluent in several artistic languages and in his current musical project “VITA NOVA” he has managed to create his own.

External LInks

The Official Aaron Wilkinson site