About / CURRENT

*indirect fire, still image, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, 2025*

Contact: ruthandniamh [at] gmail.com

Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists based in the 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.