Aoife Dunne
Sculpture & combined media
Limerick School of Art and Design
Specialisms: Fine Art / Sculpture / Art Curation
Location: Limerick, Ireland
Aoife Dunne
First Name: Aoife
Last Name: Dunne
Specialisms: Fine Art / Sculpture / Art Curation
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My Location: Limerick, Ireland
University / College: Limerick School of Art and Design
Course / Program Title: Sculpture & combined media
About
Recent graduate of Sculpture & Combined Media in the Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland.
My practice is conceptual and multidisciplinary, spanning sculpture, installation, publication, drawing, cartography, walking, photography and sound. Its line of enquiry is based in the relationships between the body, the self, and the lived environment.Led by embodied and practice-based research, my interests stem from my lived experience as an autistic woman in a disabled body. I create objects, installations, and narratives which interrogate conventions of identity and embodiment. I am particularly interested in models and frameworks of understanding disability, and the cognitive mapping process involved in traversing the built environment.
I engage a research-forward practice to investigate my own disabled identity, and broader implications as they relate to the self, the body, and the world around us.
I am five feet and two inches tall, approximately, and walk with short, flat steps.
‘Connective Tissues/ Cognitive Mapping’ is a body of work encapsulating a sound walk, a parallel gallery-based audio installation, sculptural intervention, and a printed publication. It is a meditation on public space, and the movement (or lack thereof) of a disabled body through it. The work reflects on issues of access, and models of conceptualising disabled identity. Aoife draws on conventions of an artist walk and the language of cartography to shed light on the cognitive mapping process involved when she, as a disabled woman, enters public space. Each cobblestone, each kerb, each lonely bench, must be prior noted and planned for.