An installation of fabrics dyed with mineral pigments in yellow, red and brown.
Gallery installation, left to right with a series of mobile phones, a tv screen showing a film and a fabric installation.

‘… Niamh’s work could be seen as what I would call ‘tentacular art’ - a response to Donna Haraway’s call for tentacular thinking, in order to move away from fixed teleological and  linear thinking of the Anthropocene in the West which displaces Nature as other.  The artist is no longer a fixed and god-like self, but has many different selves and approaches to their work including at one point even care and responsibility for the audience and their reactions to the work.’ - Ariane Koek

Pink writing on a black background which reads, Future Artefacts FM
A wide angle photo of a wharehouse space being used as a gallery, including artwork, 'X' Mapping in the foreground
A white man's hand loosely holds a square piece of shiny, gold coloured pyrite
A close up image of a digitally cut sand stone sculpture
A shop front window with white vinyl letters writing out a letter
A yellow shelf on a white wall, with a series of square booklets placed on the shelf
The artist's hands holding up two shells, one with home made watercolour paint, and another with mineral powder

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Niamh Schmidtke (b. Dublin 1997, they/she) is an artist, lecturer and community facilitator based across London and Limerick. They explore the politics of green washing, economic jargon and the language of democracy through speculation, audio, ceramics and installations, centring intimacy as a form of decolonial praxis. 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.