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 are 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;  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), Gilchrist Fisher Landscape Award, Rebecca Hossak Gallery, London (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 have co-produced the radio show Future Artefacts FM with artist Nina Davies since 2021, receiving an Arts Council England National Lottery project grant, and funding from the Elephant Trust.