Stone Soup Part 2

26/07/2014
Sailors Home, O’Curry Street, Limerick

Final open evening featuring a revised exhibition layout, a performance by Paul Maguire and a tended sculpture by Lily Cahill and Rob Murphy.

On the invitation of Ormston House Basic Space have been in residence in the Sailors’ Home on O’Curry Street for the month of July, which has been scattered with lumps of local limestone. The stones and the house form a fulcrum and a framework around and within which art works have claimed a place. During the month artists have been undertaking short working residencies in the Sailors’ Home and contributing to an unfolding and expanding exhibition. The residency has been punctuated by open days during which the work of the artists was seen adapting to the unique location, its imposed conditions, and the ever increasing number of surrounding works.

Over the last week Stone Soup’s incarnations have become increasingly intense with the introduction of eleven new artists and their works. The project’s fragile ethic of provisional community and co-operation has been tested intensely and a generous but critical process of negotiations and alterations has taken place.

This evening sees the final event of Stone Soup featuring a performance of songs written by Paul Maguire during the residency based on interviews with other participants, a tended sculpture by Lily Cahill and Rob Murphy and new works by Alan James Burns, Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty, Simon Cummins, Jason Dunne, Katie Mooney Sheppard, and James Ó hAodha.

Basic Space have been invited to produce this project by Ormston House as part of Limerick City of Culture. Ormston House & Basic Space acknowledge the generous support of The Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick City of Culture 2014 and Shannon Foynes Port Company in bringing the project to fruition.