Suspended ten metres above the atrium, ‘Skylum’ was a large inflatable ‘air balloon’ type structure, approximately 15 metres in length. The title came from the artist’s aim to create an ‘alternative sky’ within the Atrium space. The artwork had its own internal lighting source, maki...

‘Here in Paradise’ was an outdoor exhibition installed in the North and South Squares of Sneem’s Sculpture Gardens (31 May-18 September 2014). The exhibition presented documentation of Gerz’ socially engaged project involving 40 of Sneem’s inhabitants. 40 portraits of inhabitants and th...

In August 2010, The President of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, launched a Public Art Commission through the Per Cent for Art programme. Seven artists were shortlisted to the second stage of the commission, and David Lilburn and Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly (collaborative duo Connolly-C...

In 1997 Artist Grace Weir was commissioned to develop an artwork to accompany the new Viking Centre. She created a concrete mural for the Essex Street facade of the building, which also encompasses an interior courtyard. A complex line drawing was carved into the concrete surface, creating tactil...

Gracelands ‘Circling the Square’ took place on 2nd 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 ...

The sculpture is crafted from mirror-polished stainless steel and is 4 metres in height. It comprises a sequence of three dagger-like structures, reportedly based on the blades of a field mower, which tilt at an angle causing the sharp apexes to point diagonally upwards towards the sky. Thes...

The monument is made of 104 treated timber telegraph poles (each measuring approximately 300mm in diameter and 6.5 metres in length). The piece rises to a height of 12 metres, with a similar width, and a breadth of 6.5 metres, and is lit from below with 12 base-mounted spotlights. It was construc...

In 1999 Bundoran Town Council commissioned four artists - Locky Morris, Grace Weir, Brendan Mc Gloin and Walker & Walker - to develop sculptural pieces in response to the town’s coastal shorefront and sea cliff.

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Maser’s artwork took a drab, run-down inner-city petrol station, and re-invigorated the building, forecourt, shutters, petrol pumps and vehicles with vivid colours and pop-art patterns. The urban art project took five 14-hour days, and almost 300 litres of paint to complete, as everything had t...

Changing Tracks was a contemporary visual and digital art project that facilitated the creation of nine new temporary outdoor artworks in three countries by three international artists as part of the European Union’s Culture Programme 2007-2013. The artworks responded to former railway l...