Arlene Caffrey

Arlene Caffrey is a visual artist, dance artist and adult educator based in Kilkenny. Working across the media of performance, sculpture and the written word, her practice is informed by feminine subjectivity and feminist epistemology.

Since graduating from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2009 with a degree in Visual Communications, Arlene has been working as a dance teacher, as well as creating and performing socially engaged artworks through the medium of pole dance.

In her career as a dance artist, Arlene has been performing internationally since 2010, including with Snoop Dogg as part of his ‘I Wanna Thank Me Tour’ in Belfast in March 2023.

A recent graduate of the MA Fine Art program in September 2023 at Limerick School Of Art & Design, her current research-led practice is inspired by the exploration of embodied experience, identity and autotheory, underpinned by the Deleuzian concept of ‘becoming-woman’ as a conceptual framework. Arlene aims to continue making experimental enquiries of durational live performance and sculptural works, with resulting performative works in moving image, lens based media and written works in this theme, as well as continuing her research at PhD level.

My website: www.arlenecaffrey.com