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Aoife Clifford

a.clifford@mymtu.ie
a.clifford@mymtu.ie
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Aoife Clifford is an Irish interdisciplinary artist based in Cork City. She works across time-based media, sound, drawing, and printmaking. Her practice is concept-driven, with the chosen medium dictated by the ideas she explores. Her key concepts surround conflict in contemporary life, particularly relating to information and language.

Aoife graduated with first-class honours in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2025 and has participated in exhibitions across Cork City. Her installation work from her graduate show was long listed for the RDS Visual Arts Awards 2025. She has been awarded memberships to Sample Studios and Cork Film Centre and will be participating in Super Projects with Clancy Quay Studios. She will also begin her MA in Contemporary Art Practice in 2025.

Education

  • BA Hons Fine Art, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, 2025.
Exhibitions

  • 2025 3rd MTU Faculty of Creative & Performing Arts and Media Research Symposium – EXHIBITION, James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork, Ireland
  • 2025 Neither Here Nor There, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
  • 2024 AMALGAM, James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork, Ireland
  • 2024 CAPTURE, Marina Market, Centre Park Road, Cork, Ireland

Aoife
Clifford

My work engages with navigating life in a contemporary world fuelled by information overload. I focus on immediate issues surrounding our schizophrenic relationship between information and understanding. I rely on my own personal bias to guide my practice, opening up my thoughts and fears of living under surveillance and allowing those intuitions to guide my work. Because of this, my work explores concepts without barriers or answers through visual means. I explore questions without conclusions, in the hope of resonating and potentially generating new ideas or solutions to the problems through the viewer or myself. Perhaps this is where change can occur?

I tend to focus on visual analogies through the mediums I work with. This creates a tension between the natural or more organic materials such as paper and inks versus the harsh or sterile aspects of using digital mediums such as screens or autonomous or interactive elements. This tension, I believe, allows the viewer to understand that there is conflict taking place. This is also why words or symbols are important in my practice, because of their paradox. The intention is to communicate clearly, but in our modern online world, they become isolating and unclear – from advertising, influencing, politics, intentions, and more. In this way, my practice becomes both a reflection of and a response to the complexities of navigating a world where clarity is constantly obscured by the very tools we use to seek it.

Aoife Clifford
Blue is the Color of ______?
2025
Aoife Clifford
Falling into Line
Aoife Clifford
Falling into Line (detail)
2025

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