Niamh Coffey—Siúnta

Taking its name from the Irish for "seam", 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 their relatives. Nestled in exercise copies, between thousands of stories detailed in meticulous handwriting, lie tales of metamorphosis and binary-blurring.

Siúnta was made by gathering stories of binary-blurring between humans and non-humans and making drawings based on them. Narratives emerged from this process and were brought into a textile world.