House of Memory

The Jackie Clarke Collection, Pearse Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo

8th-13th October 2021

Opening Hours 12pm. – 5pm Tuesday – Saturday

Built in 1881 to designs by Thomas Manly Deane, The Jackie Clarke Collection is housed in the former Provincial Bank Building on Pearse Street, Ballina. Acquired by Mayo County Council in 2008, the building has been restored and adapted to host an award-winning exhibition centre with adjacent walled garden.

Architecture at the Edge wished to mark in some tangible way a response to the universal realities of death, dying, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed public installation at The Jackie Clarke Collection, designed by David Kelly, entitled the House of Memory invites the public to share their personal experience during the pandemic.

The project is part funded by the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) which in partnership with the Creative Ireland programme aims to inspire and support creative responses to the themes of dying, death and bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic.