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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

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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

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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

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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​

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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​

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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 â€‹

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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 â€‹

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2018

Dali Cork, Dismantle Fundraiser Exhibition
Kino Cafe Cork Exhibition, Tautophony: Why do we rattle? Why do we sweat?
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2016

Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork, Trouvaille

Residencies

2024

Online Residency GlouguAIR Berlin, Germany                 

The Creative Residency Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland

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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

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Internships

2019

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

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