About / CURRENT
indirect fire, still image, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, 2025
Contact: ruthandniamh [at] gmail.com
Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are artists based between Sligo and Leitrim in the North-West of Ireland. Working together for over a decade, they use performance, video, sound installation and storytelling to make artworks that are concerned with power and complicity, ecology and loss.
Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland and the Irish diaspora that will acknowledge our struggles, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity.
Relevant projects include: A Disentailing Deed, 41st EVA International—Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Arts, ‘It Takes a Village’, curated by Eszter Szakács with the EVA team, 2025; A Collection of Disarticulated Bones, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and Galway City Museum, ‘The Salvage Agency’, curated by Michele Horrigan— touring to Solas Nua, Washington D.C. and Moss Arts Centre, Virginia Tech, 2024; Last of the Visioners, curated exhibition for The Model, Sligo, 2023; In a Contrary Place, solo/collaborative exhibition, Hyde Bridge Gallery & Sligo Cairde Arts Festival, 2022, and Time (Ireland) Act, year-long residency and exhibition at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, including an Irish-language film, interactive computer game, performance and installation, curated by Miranda Driscoll, as part of the Art: 2016 Centenary Programme.
CURRENT:
Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art and Carlow Arts Festival, Curated by Sean Lynch. Thursday 5 June - Sunday 31 August 2025.
41st EVA International—Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick City, ‘It Takes a Village’, curated by Eszter Szakács and the EVA Team. Friday 29 August - Sunday 26 October 2025.
TALKS:
Tour de Force, guest hosts for national tour of Ireland by visual artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons, 2025
Art X Residency Materclass, Centre for Creative Technologies at University of Galway / Tues 11 February at 12pm, 2025
Classical myths and local legends - the story of art and mythology at the National Gallery London Online, St. Patrick’s Day, 2025
Recent / Ongoing Projects:
A Collection of Disarticulated Bones, long-term research project, 4 new short films including Part of the People, that follows stories from Trinity College Dublin and Inishbofin Island. After Wound with a Tear (2016) and Standing Above Everything, idle days and minor battles (2018).
Last of the Visioners: curated exhibition of contemporary video, historic painting and museum objects at The Model, Sligo.
The Pilgrim: Latitudes Barcelona X Askeaton Contemporary Arts: international residency exchange, 2023.
Touring video / performance: In a Contrary Place / I don’t believe in ‘isms’ I just believe in me
Solas Nua, Washington D.C. and Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival, 2024; Carlow Arts Festival, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2023; Askeaton Contemporary Arts Welcome to the Neighbourhood and Sligo Cairde Arts Festival, 2022.