Sun Bounce & Solar Seats is a permanent sculptural work for St. Kevin's Community College, in Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow. Sun Bounce comprises six circular mirrors mounted on an upturned stainless steel dial (sextant) that reflect the sun onto a target situated in the shade. The six mirrors denote the monthly gradation of the sun and earth's relational movements (ebb and flow).

At noon, on the first of each month, the sun's light, is interrupted on its path to the earth where (reflected from the surface of a mirror) it illuminates a target fixed to the wall of the school. The target is a graphic based upon the wall design on the Santa Maria Novella church in Florence, Italy. In the mid-1500s the Italian cosmographer Fr. Ignazio Danti conducted his own astronomical experiments on this public church wall.

Around this arrangement are Solar Seats, providing an area for the students to sit. These benches are fabricated in a range of different materials — timber, black granite, glass, mirror and copper — which heat up and cool down at different rates.

An American artist living in Dublin since 1995, Paul Gregg has exhibited in Europe and the United States. In recent years, the primary focus of his practice has been the creation of large scale commissioned projects. Gregg earned a Bachelors of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Masters of Fine Arts from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland U.S.A. He was awarded membership to the Phi Beta Kappa honour society (U.S) for his work at UCLA, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ireland upon completion of his MFA. He is currently a lecturer at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology.

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