Niamh O’Beirne – Spiorad Baile Muna

Niamh is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong collaborative arts practice. Her work includes literature, theatre, broadcast,performance art and the production of creative spaces of play. These spaces take the form of socially engaged art parties,  performance development workshops, creative workshops in costuming craft and ritual magic, mini- festivals, exhibitions, talks and online events.

Currently, she primarily makes collaborative work with artist Helen Flanagan through long-form art project Spooky Beore (2015-present). To date Spooky Beore has produced around thirty participatory art shows and projects as well as broadcast work for Dublin Digital Radio. They present work in an informal and social manner, in keeping with their belief in the principles of cultural democracy and their aim of making accessible, participatory work in non-institutional spaces. 

Niamh’s work is presented with heart and humour and is rooted in Irish vernacular cultural practices. Her work is informed by ramble-houses, dance halls, Pattern Days and quarter-day traditions. She draws from folklore and vernacular culture to open non-normative pathways to creative expression. Niamh is deeply interested in human relationship with nature, non-human ecologies and ancestral memory and the power of these to generate new thinking and develop pathways to more equitable and inclusive futures.