Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty

Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists living and working in the North-West of Ireland. Working together for over a decade, 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 in order to acknowledge our struggles, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity.

Relevant projects to this theme 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.

Ruth and Niamh are working with Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2025 to develop new sculptural installation for the 41st EVA International Biennale in Limerick City, titled ‘It Takes a Village’, curated by Eszter Szakács. For more information on current and past works, please visit ruthandniamh.info.

Main image credit: Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, Territory of Strangers, scrolling cumulative verse text (bath, projection, milk), Broadstone Studios Dublin, solo/collaborative exhibition, 2014