Healing Clay Workshop with Holly Mullarkey

Reaching Out Healing Clay Workshop

We extend an invitation to anyone affected by the Tuam Mother and Baby home story or anyone who wishes to partake in a healing response to the anticipated exhumation of the bones of the 796 infants buried there. One-third of the mothers, approximately 600 women, came from Mayo to the Mother and Baby home, that is a significant impact and societal wound.

This healing workshop is to facilitate an opening-up and gentle healing through clay, through memory, through openness, through the welcoming of a hidden story.

We wish to embrace the mothers, their stories and those affected through the healing power of the clay process.

Fri 20th Sept 11am - 4pm (Break 1pm - 2pm) & Sat 21st Sept 11am - 5pm (Break 1pm - 2pm)

Advanced booking recommended.

Note about the Facilitators

Holly Mullarkey is an Artist, a Teacher, an activist and a social justice advocate. Her workshops are delicate and sensitive. A number of her recent exhibitions have explored grief through artistic connection with survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby home. She made porcelain baby shoes for the 2016 Commemoration of Tuam Baby Burials. With Clay Galway she exhibited porcelain bones 'Tumulus' ('burial mound') in 2019. For the European Capital Of Culture 2020 Clay Galway online she exhibited 'Deora Dé,' a poem and video installation about the outcast mother using Tear Coracles with ceramic artist Emma O Toole.

Breeda Murphy is P.R.O. of the Tuam Mother and Baby Alliance. Breeda has a masters degree in public advocacy and activism. She has voluntarily devoted her time to the human rights of survivors of institutional abuse and the rights of people with disabilities.

We acknowledge support by The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create and Mayo County Council.