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; 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 as part of the Art: 2016 Centenary Programme.
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Current / Recent:
Upcoming exhibitions
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 Biennale for Contemporary Arts, Limerick City, ‘It Takes a Village’ curated by Eszter Szakács. Friday 29 August - Sunday 26 October 2025.
2025 Talks
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 / Mon 17 March at 3:30pm (St. Patrick’s Day 2025)
RECENT PROJECTS
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 - Solas Nua, Washington D.C., 2024; Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival, 2024; Carlow Arts Festival, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art 2023; Askeaton Contemporary Arts Welcome to the Neighbourhood 2022, and Sligo Cairde Arts Festival 2022.