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 ​
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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 ​
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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