Aoife Herrity (b.1983) is an Irish visual artist based in Dublin. She works primarily with lens-based media and the written word. Current artistic concerns relate to implicit memory, dissociation and the psychology of space.
Her ongoing series Sleeping Dogs Lie relates to developmental and interpersonal trauma, specifically through implicit memory and the freeze response. Much of the series is brought about by research into psychology theory, memory and personal histories. An iteration of this work was published in 2020.
In 2021 Herrity was nominated for the Futures European Photography Platform by PhotoIreland. In the same year she was a recipient of the Irish Arts Council Agility Award and also participated in a month-long artist residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland.
Her work has been exhibited in Dublin, Belfast, London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam and is held by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Office of Public Works, Dublin. Private collections are held in Ireland, the USA and Canada.
Herrity holds an MFA in Photography from Ulster University and is an associate lecturer at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin.
