The Courthouse Gallery & Studios (CHG&S) Ennistymon will host ‘Territories’, a new exhibition by Niamh Clarke from Friday, from May 1st to June 13th.
The exhibition will take place in the Red Couch Gallery upstairs the CHG&S premises on Parliament St, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Clarke’s work draws us toward what is submerged or half-seen, where meaning gathers slowly through attention, gesture, and material.
Working across drawing, prose, watercolour and Super8 video, her practice reflects an interest in memory and temporality, often reworking found and personal photographs through an intuitive, embodied process. Images emerge as fragments layered, drifting, and suggestive-forming quiet, implied narratives shaped by personal experience and the subconscious.
Describing herself as a “passionate spectator,” Clarke is attentive to the tension between what is visible and what remains hidden. In Territories, landscape becomes a repository for experience, where traces accumulate and meaning unfolds gradually over time.
The exhibition continues from her previous solo show Interiorities (Custom House Studios, Westport, 2025), reconfigured here as a new sequence of works at CHG&S.
Niamh Clarke is a BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate from Ulster University 2019 and is based at QSS studios Belfast. She is a co-founder and member of the collaborative drawing group The Drawing Journal
Recent group exhibitions include: In Living Memory, Household, Belfast (2025), ‘lucent’ a touring group exhibition, which travelled to Uillin, West Cork (2023), Highlanes, Drogheda (2024) Wexford Arts Centre (2024) and The Levinsky gallery Plymouth (2025), and ‘Ode to Light’ Arcade Gallery Belfast (2023). Solo exhibitions include: ‘Interiorities’ at Custom House Studios, Westport, (2025) and ‘the transient and the perishing’ Platform Gallery, Belfast (2021).