Aoife Herrity 🇵🇸
@aoifeherrity.bsky.social
Artist, Lecturer, Writer (she/they)
Visualising Interpersonal & Developmental Trauma, Dissociative States, Sensory Processing
Visualising Interpersonal & Developmental Trauma, Dissociative States, Sensory Processing
Quentin, you’re projecting.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Quentin, you’re projecting.
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Funnily enough, I'm off to an exhibition celebrating more than 40 yrs of an artists studio space in Temple Bar this evening. Something made possible only cos the scrappy space artists found & made for themselves in an unloved part of the city in 1982 was saved by a grand vision for the city
And...
And...
The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Save The Complex in Dublin
I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share
my.uplift.ie
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Funnily enough, I'm off to an exhibition celebrating more than 40 yrs of an artists studio space in Temple Bar this evening. Something made possible only cos the scrappy space artists found & made for themselves in an unloved part of the city in 1982 was saved by a grand vision for the city
And...
And...
An iteration of my series ‘left me with the fears of a bird’ is now available as a TLP Edition at The Library Project:
www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/lef...
www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/lef...
left me with the fears of a bird, Aoife Herrity
This emerging body of work draws from time spent at Sweeney’s Bothy on the Isle of Eigg in late February 2024. The title relates to a line from Seamus Heaney’s work Sweeney Astray, an adaptation of th...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
An iteration of my series ‘left me with the fears of a bird’ is now available as a TLP Edition at The Library Project:
www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/lef...
www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/lef...
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The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South 1854.photo/46B9MA7
Rahim Fortune paints with colour for his latest exhibition at CPW, Kingston - 1854 Photography
The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South
1854.photo
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Austin-born artist engages with the Texas African-American Photography Archive to reveal a compelling portrait of kinship in the American South 1854.photo/46B9MA7
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hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
August 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.
August 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.
“Our complicity in the West and in our industry is marked by the silence of our institutions, and the gatekeepers at their helms, prioritising corporate sponsorship above moral clarity.”
@peterwatkins.bsky.social
1000wordsmag.com/arles-2025-s... Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?
@peterwatkins.bsky.social
1000wordsmag.com/arles-2025-s... Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?
Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?
Is the art world willing to take real political risks, or does it perform radicality within safe limits? What to make of aesthetic gestures of dissent without institutional accountability and without ...
1000wordsmag.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“Our complicity in the West and in our industry is marked by the silence of our institutions, and the gatekeepers at their helms, prioritising corporate sponsorship above moral clarity.”
@peterwatkins.bsky.social
1000wordsmag.com/arles-2025-s... Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?
@peterwatkins.bsky.social
1000wordsmag.com/arles-2025-s... Arles 2025: staging radicality within safe limits?
www.frieze.com/article/arti... How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries | Frieze
How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries
For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing
www.frieze.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
www.frieze.com/article/arti... How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries | Frieze
“Where a full stop bangs down the hard end, the bookend to a sentence, to a thought, the dash is liquid. It flows two ways, both ways. Meaning can move against the current, eddy back up the sentence or flow down.” Robert Macfarlane on the em dash.
July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Where a full stop bangs down the hard end, the bookend to a sentence, to a thought, the dash is liquid. It flows two ways, both ways. Meaning can move against the current, eddy back up the sentence or flow down.” Robert Macfarlane on the em dash.
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Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
“If discontinued, many artists would be thrust back into the cycle of precarious employment, underemployment, or forced reliance on social welfare systems.”
July 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“If discontinued, many artists would be thrust back into the cycle of precarious employment, underemployment, or forced reliance on social welfare systems.”
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New short story, The Lake by Juliana Adelman as part of our online fiction series.
"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."
stingingfly.org/2025/07/02/t...
"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."
stingingfly.org/2025/07/02/t...
July 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New short story, The Lake by Juliana Adelman as part of our online fiction series.
"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."
stingingfly.org/2025/07/02/t...
"The day of the first accident wasn’t especially hot or sunny, I remember. We were having a barbecue in the car park for my son’s eighteenth birthday."
stingingfly.org/2025/07/02/t...
‘…film and photography as mediums of memory, repetition and resistance.’ Also a sound piece accessed via a trap door. I’m keen to hear it and to see the installation images.
Transformation is often gradual, as ‘time heals, just not quick enough…’ at Efie Gallery, Dubai reminds us artreview.com/time-heals-j...
When the Camera Is a Tool for Resistance
Transformation is often gradual, as ‘time heals, just not quick enough…’ at Efie Gallery, Dubai reminds us
artreview.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘…film and photography as mediums of memory, repetition and resistance.’ Also a sound piece accessed via a trap door. I’m keen to hear it and to see the installation images.
Archivo Papers Vol. 5: interesting perspectives on the archive and its role in contemporary visual practice.
archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.ph... Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies | Archivo Papers
archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.ph... Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies | Archivo Papers
Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies
| Archivo Papers
archivopapersjournal.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Archivo Papers Vol. 5: interesting perspectives on the archive and its role in contemporary visual practice.
archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.ph... Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies | Archivo Papers
archivopapersjournal.com/ojs/index.ph... Vol. 5 (2025): Archives and Contemporary Visual Art: Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies | Archivo Papers
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Today is a good day to reflect on the incredible work @younghorgan.bsky.social, @secondcaptains.bsky.social, and BBC Sounds undertook for and around the Where Is George Gibney? podcast.
It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.
It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.
George Gibney facing 79 charges relating to alleged sexual abuse of four girls
George Gibney: Ex-Irish Olympic swim coach is to appear in court in US next week following arrest
www.irishtimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today is a good day to reflect on the incredible work @younghorgan.bsky.social, @secondcaptains.bsky.social, and BBC Sounds undertook for and around the Where Is George Gibney? podcast.
It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.
It remains a brilliant, thorough, hugely empathic and influential piece of journalism.
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Want to hear something totally out of this world?
How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?
Volume up!
How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?
Volume up!
June 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Want to hear something totally out of this world?
How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?
Volume up!
How about the echolocation calls of lesser horseshoes – Ireland's rarest + smallest bat – as they head out from their roost at dusk to hunt midges and other insects over an Atlantic rainforest?
Volume up!
Very relatable observations on autistic burnout and the desire for solitude.
New podcast. I chat with world renowned psychologist professor Bruce Hood about Happiness, Magical Thinking, Neurodivergence and Philosophy. I also speak about my current experience of autistic burnout, for the benefit of my neurodivergent listeners. Dog Bless ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/5Mie...
The Science of Happiness with an expert Psychologist
The Blindboy Podcast · Episode
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June 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Very relatable observations on autistic burnout and the desire for solitude.
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If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist
June 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If you’re rioting or even just protesting because a foreigner has been accused of rape, but you never rioted or protested when a white Irish bloke was accused of rape, you are not a defender of women and are - quite literally - just a racist
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“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
Doechii at the #BETAwards
Doechii at the #BETAwards
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" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
We’re all just out here trying to be brave like Tiki 😭
June 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We’re all just out here trying to be brave like Tiki 😭
“I don’t know if the trustees of the British Museum recognize that so much of that space feels like a crime scene to so many cultures…”
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Misan Harriman
Podcast Episode · Talk Art · S25 E2 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“I don’t know if the trustees of the British Museum recognize that so much of that space feels like a crime scene to so many cultures…”
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podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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„It is June. I am tired of being brave.“
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
June 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
„It is June. I am tired of being brave.“
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton