Aoife Billings (she/her) is an Irish-Australian interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, painting, ceramics, and social practice. She lives and works on Wurundjeri land (Melbourne, Australia).
Aoife’s multi-sensorial fine art practice delves into themes of time, attention, emotional processing, and Irish mythology, exemplified in her 2023 solo exhibition 'Blow Up' at Off The Kerb Gallery, which featured ceramic sculpture, glass, and oil painting. She holds a particular fascination with ceramics, where the kiln, rather than the artist, determines the final form—making it a process steeped in unpredictability. Through an intuitive approach to art-making, she explores the genesis and contemporary barriers of creative thought, drawing inspiration from Irish mythology and neuroscience.
Her work has been prominently featured within numerous group exhibitions at Off the Kerb Gallery, Tinning Street Gallery, Backwoods Gallery, Platform Arts, School House Studio and Pink Ember.
Aoife is a cofounder and director of Pink Ember, a queer artist run initiative (ARI) established in 2018 with 22 artist studios, a gallery, ceramic studio, and workshop venue. Aoife considers the facilitation of the ARI to be part of her social practice; teaching ceramic sculpture and plays an ongoing role as the events and art education programmer at Pink Ember.