Visual Artists Ireland has published a review of Stuck, a decomposition, a solo exhibition by Daniel Tuomey as seen in Ormston House.

Written by El Reid-Buckley, the review appears in the May – June 2025 issue of the Visual Artists’ News Sheet. It engages with the exhibition’s deconstruction of space and voice and its exploration of Irish cultural memory, drawing connections to Samuel Beckett, Franco ‘Bifo’ Beradi, and Frederic Jameson.

You can read the review here.

Image by Shane Vaughan.

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.