About / CURRENT
Gleniff Horseshoe (defunct) Baryte Mines, research photograph, upcoming project, 2025
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Contact: ruthandniamh [at] gmail.com
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About:
Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists living and working in the North-West of Ireland. They use performance, video, sound installation and storytelling, along with a detailed research process, to convey visions of transience and resistance.
Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland that will acknowledge our struggles, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity.
Relevant projects include: ‘A Collection of disarticulated Bones’, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and Galway City Museum, 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 as part of the Art: 2016 Centenary Programme.
Ruth & Niamh are supported in 2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland, Askeaton Contemporary Arts and Project Arts Centre.
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Current:
UPCOMING: ‘A Collection of Disarticulated Bones’, long-term research project, including new film ‘Part of the People’ following 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’ - Carlow Arts Festival, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art 2023; Askeaton Contemporary Arts Welcome to the Neighbourhood 2022; Sligo Cairde Arts Festival 2022; Solas Nua, Washington D.C., 2024; Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival, 2024.