Bio
Aoife Herrity is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She was nominated by PhotoIreland as an Irish Talent for the Futures European Photography Platform in 2021. In the same year Herrity was a recipient of the Irish Arts Council Agility Award. She has an MFA in Photography from Ulster University, where she developed her series Sleeping Dogs Lie. Selections from this series have been exhibited in Dublin, Belfast, Copenhagen & Amsterdam. The series was published as a TLP Edition monograph in 2020. This ongoing body of work relates to developmental and interpersonal trauma, specifically implicit memory and the freeze response. Much of the series is brought about by research into psychology theory, memory and personal histories. Herrity works with lens-based media, the written word and archival material as a means to unpack and examine the complex area of trauma experienced in childhood.
CV
b. 1983 Dublin, Ireland.
Education
2018 - 2020 Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, NI
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Photography (awarded with distinction)
2001 - 2005 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, IE
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Photography (awarded with merit one grade)
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Meeting House Square, DYT at Forty, Dublin, IE (digital projection)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Printworks Dublin Castle, Images Are All We Have, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, IE
2021 The Library Project, Halftone Fair, Dublin, IE
2021 The Library Project, FUTURES Irish Talents 2021, Dublin, IE
2021 Milk Cafe @ Melkweg, Futures Talents 2021, Amsterdam, NE (digital display)
2021 Copenhagen Photo Festival, The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK
2020 The Library Project, Halftone Fair, Dublin, IE
2020 Belfast Exposed, Anthropology, Belfast, NI
2020 Signal Arts Centre, Signal Open, Bray, IE
2019 Rua Red, Winter Open 2019, Dublin, IE
2019 The Library Project, Halftone Fair, Dublin, IE
2018 Rua Red, Winter Open 2018, Dublin, IE
2018 The Library Project, Halftone Fair, Dublin, IE
2017 Somerset House, Sony World Photography Awards & Exhibition, London, UK (digital display)
2016 Bond Street Studios, Dublin 8 for Culture Night, Dublin, IE
2016 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, FEAR by Peachy Dublin, Dublin, IE
2016 Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, IE
2015 Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Peachy, Dublin, IE
2013 Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA 183rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin, IE
2010 D-Light Studios, Homeless Gallery with PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, IE
2010 South Studios, Tools of the Trade with PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, IE
Online Exhibitions
2021 Void Collective, Always Present, London, UK
2020 Photofringe Festival, Navigation, Anthropic XI Collective, Brighton, UK
https://2020.photofringe.org/exhibitions/navigation-1/view
2020 Source Magazine, Graduate Photography Online, Belfast, NI
https://www.source.ie/graduate/2020/index_ma.php
2020 Irish Arts Review, New Generations Gallery, Dublin, IE
https://www.irishartsreview.com/new-generation-artist-work/aoife-herrity/
2020 CIACLA, Online Program, Los Angeles, USA https://ciacla.com/online-program/
2020 Photograd Degree Show, UK www.photodegreeshow.com/magraduates
Public Collections
Untitled (Tree), Office of Public Works. Dublin, IE, acquired 2020
Untitled (Crow), Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, NI, acquired 2020
Untitled (Hedge), Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, NI, acquired 2020
Untitled (Tree), Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, NI, acquired 2020
Bursaries, Grants & Awards
2021 Irish Arts Council, Agility Award, Round II, IE
2021 Irish Talent for Futures Photography Platform 2021, IE (nominated by PhotoIreland)
2020 Source MA Graduate Photography Online, Belfast, NI (judge’s selection- Kirstin Kidd, Picture Editor, the Economist)
2017 Sony World Photography Awards & Exhibition, Open Still Life Category, UK (commended image)
2014 Lensculture Portrait Awards, UK (finalist)
Residencies
2021 Arteles Creative Center, Enter Text Residency, Haukijärvi, FI
2018 Cow House Studios, Spring Residency, Wexford, IE
Monograph
2020 Sleeping Dogs Lie, TLP Editions, PhotoIreland Foundation
Written Work
2022 Commissioned Essay, Now Tell Me Writing, Issue 3 (forthcoming)
2019 How Are We Feeling?, Critical Bastards, Issue 16: SENSE
Features & Publicity
2021 Click Magazine, Issue 77
2020 Photofringe Festival, Instagram takeover
Talks & Public Speaking
2022 Photography: An Empathetic Gesture?, Critical Academy Think Tank, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, IE
2022 VAI Show & Tell, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, IE (online)
2020 In Conversation with Haley Morris-Cafiero, Good Relations Week, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, NI
Teaching & Lecturing
2019 - 2022 Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, IE (associate lecturer)
2018 Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, IE (tutor/demonstrator)
2017 - 2018 Gallery of Photography, IE (workshop facilitator)
2014 Gaelscoil Cholmcille with AXIS Ballymun, IE (photography project facilitator)
2009 - 2011 D-light Studios, IE (workshop facilitator)