About

Aoife Claffey is a multidisciplinary installation artist based in Cork, Ireland. Her work explores human sensory perception through immersive environments that merge interactive projections, sculpture, and sound. Engaging with site-specific spaces, she speculates on alternative environments while critically examining social structures and the interplay of unpredictability and fragility.

Focused on the tension between sensory overload and solitude, her practice reflects on the potential of advanced technology to foster connection rather than distraction. Through light, surround sound, reflective materials, and layered projections, Aoife creates installations that expand sensory and psychological boundaries, evoking altered states of perception and engagement.

Education

2025 - Present

PhD Interwoven Networks, MTU TU Rise Scholarship

2020-2021

MA (1:1) Art and Process, Crawford College of Art and Design

2015-2019

BA (1:1) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design

Awards

2025 PhD Scholarship MTU TU Rise Funding

2024 Arts Council Agility Award

2024 Arts Council Project Award

2024 Cork City Council Artist Bursary

2023 Cork County Council Artist Bursary

2022 Arts Council Agility Award

2022 Cork County Council Touring Bursary

2022 Screaming Popes Prize Finalist

2021 Arts Council Agility Award
2021 Arts Council Project Award with inter_site Collective
2021 RDS Long-list Award
2021 Cork County Council Funding for Solo Show
2021 Shortlisted - Artists Development Programme

2019 The Bloomers Award, Emerging Female Artist
2019 Eli Lilly Purchase Prize
2019 Cork Film Centre, Exhibition Award

Exhibitions

Upcoming

2025 ⌥ERTIGO, A Crescendo, inter_site, Cork County Hall

2025 Liquid Urbanism, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 2025

Solo

2023 Our Town, The Band Stand Carrigaline, Culture night

2022 8 Exhibition, Solo Show, Cork Airport, Cork

2021Mystical Confessions, Solo Show, The Crypt St Lukes, Cork

Group

2024

GlouguAIR Online Residency Exhibition, Berlin Germany

The Creative Residency Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland

Digital Art Exhibition, The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Curated by Robin Parmar

2023

Error: / undefined, inter_site Exhibition, Pallas Projects, Dublin

Our Town, Solo Show, Culture Night, The Band Stand Carrigaline, Cork

Inter_site, Oscillation: An altering rhythm, The Counting House Cork

Cork Printmakers Member Show, Lavit Gallery Cork

2022

Inter_site, Sluice London, IMT Gallery London, England

Inter_site, Sluice Exhibition, Lisbon Portugal

Drawbridge Exhibition, CCAD / Crawford Art Gallery Collaboration

Uillinn West Cork Art Centre Open Studio Exhibition, Cork

Inter_site, Pada Gallery Exhibition, Barreiro, Portugal

Assemblage of Decent, ArtNom Gallery Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal

Sample Studios Summer Exhibition, Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Cork

K-Kest, Kilorglin, Art Festival, Kerry

Inter_site, Queens Old Castle, Grande Parade Cork

Pulsating Place, Faoin Speir, Lavit Gallery Courtyard, Cork

2021

Oileán, inter_site Collective, Curated by Sinead Barrett, Spike Island
K-Kest, Killorglin Art Festival, Kerry
The Lavit Gallery, Cork Printmakers 30 Exhibition, Cork
inter_site, The Lord Mayors Pavilion Oileán, Cork Harbour Festival

GOMA, Soft Rupture, M.A Group Exhibition, Waterford
inter_site Exhibition, Marina Market, Cork
Uillinn West Cork, Members Exhibition, Cork

2020

Cahoots: The Space Between, A4 Sounds/Sample Studios/Engage

Uillinn Art Gallery, Winter Online Showcase
Gallery Grand Parade N46, COM,MA, Masters in Art and Process
James Barry Gallery MTU, COM,MA, Masters in Art and Process

Sample Studios Christmas Members Show, The Lord Mayors Pavilion Cork

IndieCork, Artist Film, MV ALTA, Online Exhibition

Grande Parade Cork, A window into / A window onto, Culture Night

Incognito, Jack and Jills Public Art Initiative

The Lord Mayors Pavilion, Host, Cork Printmakers

2019

The Lord Mayors Pavilion Cork, Sample Studios Christmas Show
The Gate Cinema, IndieCork Film Shortlisted EI 724
Crawford College of Art and Design, Dismantle, Fine Art Degree Show

Espai Cultural Eina, Barcelona Spain, PRINT.ED #5

2018

Dali Cork, Dismantle Fundraiser Exhibition
Kino Cafe Cork Exhibition, Tautophony: Why do we rattle? Why do we sweat?

2016

Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork, Trouvaille

Residencies

2024

Online Residency GlouguAIR Berlin, Germany

The Creative Residency Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland

2022

Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Studio Residency

PADA Studio and Gallery, Residency and Exhibition, Lisbon Portugal

2021

Cork Printmakers Fellowship Award

Spike Island Art Residency

Sample Studio Residency Award and Solo Show

2020

Cork Printmakers 12 Month Bursary Award

Multimedia Graduate Award, Crawford College of Art and Design

Teaching

Part Time Lecturer

MTU, Crawford College of Art and Design

Art Tutor

Glucksman Gallery

Macroom School of Art

Telus International, Art Brings us Together

A City Rising, Youth Architecture Programme
Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, Sample Studios

Creative Careers Programme, Sample Studios

Young Curators Programme, Sample Studios

Culture Night, Drawing Workshops, Lord Mayor's Pavilion

Curation

2021- Present inter_site Exhibitions

2021 Creating at Distance, CCAD Online Exhibition Curator

2021 Illustrator, Ciara Chapman Art Trail Exhibition, Cork City
2019 Assistant Curator of Past Present Fota House Exhibition

Internships

2019

Cork Craft and Design, Summer Internship
Cork Arts Collective, Summer Internship with Linda Curtin