Join us on Wednesday the 28th of May at 4pm to see our own Niamh Coffey’s exhibition ‘Siúnta’ at Pallas! RSVP below if you’d like to join.

Siúnta

“………….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.”…

…”These collaged narratives offer a humourous invitation to envisage new ways of interacting with and existing within the larger matrix of nature and the earth. This work is guided by the concept of queer ecology, which asks us to abandon ideas of human exceptionalism and anthropomorphism and instead asks us to see humans as part of a complex and interwoven system, whose patterns and processes are different from our own.”

Artist Bio

Niamh Coffey is a Dublin-based artist from Laois, working through textiles and sculpture. Their work experiments and collages ideas from ecology, queer theory and Irish folklore to create imagined ecological relationships. Their debut solo exhibition was held in Cultúrlann, Belfast in March 2025. Niamh graduated from NCAD in 2016 with an honours degree in Sculpture and Expanded Practices.

Previous exhibitions in which their work has featured include: Borders at Rua Red; Work/Force/Field/ at A4 Sounds and; Atelier Páipéar at Workhouse Union. Upcoming shows in 2026 include solo exhibitions at Custom House Gallery, Westport and GOMA, Waterford. In 2023, Niamh took part in peripheriesPOST, an experimental art school and mentorship programme in Gorey School of Art. In 2022, Niamh received an Agility Award from the Arts Council. In 2024, they were awarded Laois County Council’s Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary and an Arts Act Grant in 2025.

Instagram: @niamhnomilktwosugars