The largest piece of artwork is byand involves a hanging installation consisting of 796 clay hearts. Alison Lowry’s glass “Home Babies” dress consists of glass baptismal certs.
One of the artists involved in the project is Sheila O’Byrne. In 1976, when Sheila was 19, she was sent to St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home on Dublin’sStay with Me, which opens in the Aula Maxima, is a group art exhibition which brings together the work of 20 artists and survivors who felt compelled to create artwork in response initially, to the tragic story of the Tuam Babies.
In 2017, the State Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes reported that its excavation in Tuam had found “significant quantities of human remains” in a 20-chamber underground structure.