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Ormston House announce closing event for ‘Stuck, a decomposition’ on April 26

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Ormston House announce closing event for ‘Stuck, a decomposition’ on April 26

Ormston House announce ‘Stuck, a decomposition’ closing event exploring the themes addressed by the Daniel Tuomey exhibition

Ormston House announce 'Stuck, a decomposition' closing event exploring the themes addressed by the Daniel Tuomey exhibition
The discursive event includes contributions from Sharon Slater and other speakers.

Daniel Tuomey will join Ormston House to mark the closing of his exhibition Stuck, a decomposition with a discursive event that includes contributions from Sharon Slater, Conor Lucey, and David Fleming.

This event is an exploration of themes addressed by Tuomey’s exhibition: the sociological, cultural, and political aspects of Georgian architecture and how these are manifest in the fabric of Limerick city and in structures that surround Ormston House.

Daniel Tuomey was born in Dublin and currently lives and works in Rotterdam. He is a graduate of both the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. In 2021, he completed the NEF Animation Residency at Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud Abbey.


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Sharon Slater is an internationally-published author and historian who runs the Limerick’s Life website. Slater is Historian-in-Residence at Ormston House.

Conor Lucey is Associate Professor of architectural history in the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. His book House and Home in Georgian Ireland was published in 2022.

Conor Lucey is Associate Professor of architectural history in the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin

David Fleming is an historian at the University of Limerick. His research concentrates on the social and political development of eighteenth-century Ireland. He has published on topics including provincial politics, poverty, religious conversion, associational behaviour, and prostitution.

Arising from Daniel Tuomey’s long-standing interest in the psychology of Irish architectural traditions, Stuck, a decomposition centres around a narrator trapped in the chimney of a Georgian townhouse. Using sculpture, drawing, and performance, this new installation for Ormston House positions a particular, middle-class Irish voice as a tense and untenable junction of linguistic trajectories, laced with shame and bravado, trapped within decomposing structures it feels no ownership over.

David Fleming is an historian at the University of Limerick.
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