US artist brings famine memorial to father's birthplace of Wexford

Artist Paula Stokes has returned to her paternal family home place of Wexford from Seattle to unveil the ‘1845: Memento Mori’ exhibition. The exhibition is a Famine Memorial dedicated to the Irish Potato Famine and will be showcased in the gardens of Johnstown Castle Estate, Museum & Gardens until August 21st 2021.

 A thought-provoking and powerful exhibition of 1,845 hand-blown 'ghostly' glass potatoes by an American artist has gone on exhibition in county Wexford.

US based artist Paula Stokes has returned to her paternal family’s home place of Wexford to unveil the internationally renowned ‘1845: ‘Memento Mori’ famine memorial installation in the gardens of the Johnstown Castle Estate.