Aoife Doolan

Aoife Doolan, is a multidisciplinary, community based artist, musician and painter, currently residing and working in Westmeath. In 2008 she graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with a B.A in Fine Art and further completed an M.A in Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin in 2010. In 2008, she was selected by the Royal Hibernian Academy for their Emerging Artist Graduate exhibition for her work titled Flightless, which also went on to gain recognition with Filmbase and Underground Cinema in Dublin. She had exhibited work in various locations across Ireland, including Athlone’s Luan Gallery, and her work was selected for inclusion in the 2020 HerStory light show exhibition, projected on the GPO in Dublin city.

Over the past fifteen years Aoife has developed both a personal practice as a solo artist, and a practice as a community artist, with a specific focus on community inclusion and regeneration. She has co-founded three community artist collectives over that time including the Making Space collective, Athlone and the Pulse collective in Bantry, Co.Cork where she lived and worked as a community artist for over a decade. She has exhibited her work across the country, including Athlone’s Luan Gallery (Boardwalk Gallery) alongside the Louis Le Broqucy exhibition, An Tain.

Aoife is currently working under the Athlone Family Resource Centre as the Community Arts Inclusion worker, with a residency at Abbey Road Studios in collaboration with Athlone Arts and Tourism.