Programme
Stuck, a decomposition: Closing Event
On 26 April 2025 at 3pm, Daniel Tuomey will join us 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. It will run for approximately ninety minutes.
About the contributors:
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.
Sharon Slater is an internationally-published author and historian who runs the Limerick’s Life website and is the Limerick Chronicle historian. Slater is Historian-in-Residence at Ormston House.
Dr. 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.
Prof. 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.
About Stuck, a decomposition:
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.
