Niamh Schmidtke (she/they b.1997, Dublin) explores the political complications of ‘being green’ by cultivating conversations with the environment, through speculation, audio, ceramics and installations. They examine the relationship between listening and speaking, to consider the kinds of voices that deep time, the sea, or humans could have with one another. These relations critique the utopia of renewable energies, drawing attention to the financial origins of climate crises and examine intimacy as a form of decolonial praxis for the future.

 

They were the 2023 Earth Water Sky artist-in-residence at TU Berlin, with Science Gallery International, culminating in Pulling Blood from a Stone, their solo in TU Berlin featuring newly commissioned audio and video works. Recent shows include;  TULCA; Salvage Agency, Galway (2024), Pulling Blood from a Stone, Science Gallery Berlin (2024), Accelerating Young Talent, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg (2023), Night's Candles are Burnt Out, Hunt Museum Limerick (2023), The diamond’s less sexy sister, Future Artefacts FM, online (2023), PULSE, Limerick City Gallery, (2022), London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2022). They completed their MFA at Goldsmiths, London with a First Class Honours in 2021 and hold a Fine Art Honours BA from Limerick School of Art and Design (2019). They are the artist in residency and climate resilience tutor in the University of Limerick School of Architecture

 

They have co-produced the radio show Future Artefacts FM with artist Nina Davies since 2021, joined by Rebecca Edwards in 2024, receiving an Arts Council England National Lottery project grant, and funding from the Elephant Trust.