Niamh Schmidtke

Niamh Schmidtke (b.1997, Dublin) is EARTH WATER SKY artist-in-residence at Science Gallery Berlin and is working on a commission for the Hunt Museum in Ireland. 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 lecture at the School of Architecture, University of Limerick on visual culture and material studies and co-produce the radio show Future Artefacts FM with artist Nina Davies, receiving an Arts Council England National Lottery project grant, and funding from the Elephant Trust. Recent shows include; Accelerating Young Talent, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg (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) Niamh 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 use intimacy as a form of decolonial praxis for the future.