Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists based in the West of Ireland, working together since 2010. They make exhibitions and events that combine visual art, experimental film, music and performance to contemplate 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 acknowledges adversities as well as complicities in order to build capacity for solidarity.
Recent projects by Ruth and Niamh 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, co-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.
