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Artist-Initiated Projects 3: Niamh Coffey—Siúnta

Pallas Projects/Studios are pleased to present Niamh Coffey—Siúnta, the third exhibition of our 2025 Artist-Initiated Projects programme. .....Enter under intertwined necks of birds in love. Please don't let the PDA make you queasy. A hungry and disembodied mouth looms over you, spitting frantic toads and teeth out onto the floor. You step back to avoid them and bump into a small and ugly spiked creature. It scuttles past, leaving a trail of juicy, spit-covered blackberries behind. Please do not be tempted to snack right now. A ladder tumbles down from the moon, droplets of milk following. Two conjoined eggs whisper as you pass by. You didn't catch the words but the tone seemed ominous, especially in this duplicitous Gemini season. You go to leave and a sweaty hand presses something conspiratorially into your palm. You look down, a wriggling worm. Nice...... Taking its name from the Irish for a seam or joint, Siúnta weaves together disparate narratives into imagined ecological relationships. Forms of flesh, fur, flower and feather mingle and merge. Subjects develop symbiotic relationships, exhibit unfamiliar actions and establish neoteric habits together. In 1937-39, the Irish Folklore Commission asked schoolchildren to collect local history from relatives and neighbours. Nestled in exercise copies, between thousands of stories detailed in meticulous handwriting, lie tales of metamorphosis and binary-blurring. Siúnta was made by gathering these stories of binary-blurring between humans and non-humans and making drawings based on them. Narratives eventually emerged from this process and were brought into a textile world. BIO: Niamh Coffey is a Dublin-based artist from Laois, working through textiles and sculpture. Their work collages ideas from ecology, queer theory and Irish folklore to create imagined ecological relationships. Niamh graduated from NCAD in 2016 with an honours degree in Sculpture and Expanded Practices. @niamhnomilktwosugars @artscouncilireland #ArtistInitatedProjects #ContemporaryArt #ArtistRunSpaces #exhibition #dublinarts