In celebration of two non-events… - James L Hayes
Hayes’ two part installation utilises a range of found materials from the Fort Camden site. Most significantly is the use (or re use) of collected cast iron. The work in each room responds and reflects upon the previous func...

Vladimir Arkhipov's project Functioning Forms Ireland highlights a phenomenon in which economic transactions are almost entirely absent. Arkhipov has a single project that he carries out all over the world, under the umbrella title of Museum of the Handmade Object. His 'Post-Folk Ar...

In 2005, Gerard Byrne spent several months documenting glasshouses in the rural areas of Rush and Lusk, County Dublin. The artist produced a series of 20 photographs which portrayed the glasshouse as embodying an 'architecture of market gardening activity'. The photographs were housed in a s...

Gracelands Circling the Square took place on 2 August, 2012, from 6-11pm. The site-specific programme included live performance, sculpture and screenings by Irish and international artists, transforming the site into a temporary exhibition platform.

Circling the Square considered the ‘squareâ...

Granby Park (2013) was a temporary ‘pop-up’ park in a vacant site in Dublin’s inner-city. It was devised and constructed by over 500 volunteers, from recycled, up-cycled, reclaimed, borrowed, donated and found materials, to make “a place of creativity, nature, imagination, play and bea...

This project took place in Cherry Orchard National School, a wonderfully synthetic building where artist Janet Mullarney had the opportunity to carry out a series of works throughout the first floor corridors. The buildin...

Grúpat consists of nine individuals, each of whose projects combine a specific aspect of the local context with their well developed experimental artistic practice. For example, Turf Boon's silent music video, made from objects sourced in Tallaght shopping centre, Bulletin M's songta...

The haiku is a a very old form of poetry originating in Japan. It consists of seventeen syllables, spread over three lines. Its brevity allows the form to create something like an instant verbal image. It's a form whose use can be taught quickly, and is now very widely practiced in the West. It i...

Leitrim based composer, Ian Wilson's Harbouring is based on nine poems from both Irish and international writers, which all have the subject of harbour in common, inspired by the link between the music and its source of f...

Inspired by the original origami-hedgehog created by John Richardson, this large scale work was completed and installed in May 2010. After the creation of a 3D CAD model, the work was plasma-cut from a series of 6mm Corten steel sheets, and fabricated using MIG welds over a galvanized piping...