Publicart.ie


A comprehensive public art resource, publicart.ie offers information from the practical to the critical.

This site includes a directory of almost 250 permanent and temporary, public and socially engaged, artworks made in Ireland, or made by Irish artists abroad. Many of the featured projects were funded through the Per Cent for Art Scheme.

The site carries the latest news and opportunities for artists, and reading material on subjects such as commissioning an artist, through to excerpts from art world publications and discourses.

Advice to first-time commissioners - Is this the first time you have been involved in managing a Per Cent for Art project - do you need advice? 

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Anne Ffrench

Butter Virgins

A series of Virgin Mary statues, cast from butter, placed in the freezer cabinets of a local shop and supermarket in Ballinspittle. The statues re...