No Man’s Land (2011) was a small, man-made island, created by Fergal McCarthy for Dublin’s Fringe Festival that year. Anchored west of The Samuel Beckett Bridge on the river Liffey, opposite a vacant building intended to be the headquarters of the former Anglo Irish Bank, the fake dessert isl...

Sculptor Eamonn O’ Doherty was commissioned by Mayo County Council in 2006 to produce a sculpture for the Island of Inishturk. During consultation with the people of the Island they expressed a preference for a figurative sculpture, taking into consideration their lifestyl...

Mystical Anarchism is an experimental project to explore an alternative model to engage with theoretical enquiry using a transdisciplinary approach. Rather than coordinating a lecture in an academic context, Mystical Anarchism seeks to create a more open discourse. This took place u...

Commissioned by Breaking Ground under the Local Artists commissioning strand, Cecilia put out an open call for submissions in early 2008 for artworks to be displayed in perspex units througho...

Mr.& Mrs. Krabb's Utopia is a meditation by the artist on contemporary rural life in Ireland from an 'outsiders' point of view. The participants were asked 'Why did they relocate to start a new life in Ireland. Were they looking for a kind of Utopia?' The resulting conversations touche...

A filmic essay about contemporary Dublin, and a collection of photographs, essays and video works produced in a hard cover volume by Gandon Editions in April 2009.

We spent a lot of time meeting and talking to people all over Dublin about their personal experiences of moving through the city, a...

The work, made of cast bronze and stainless steel, depicts a sea urchin positioned on its side and suspended in motion leaving a trail of metal silver droplets.

It is as if the sea urchin has been thrown up onto the shore by a wave. Positioned at a slight angle, we can follow the moving...

A large horse and rider sculpture depicting a young female bareback rider cast from the statue of Viscount Hugh Gough, which was originally sited in the Phoenix Park until it was blown up by the IRA in 1957. It was commissioned as part of Breaking Ground, the Per Cent for Art Programme for Ballym...

Dominic Thorpe was one of a number of artists invited to meet with people who suffer from the chronic physical pain disorder called neuropathic pain, and in response create art work that visualises pain. The project investigated the potential for artwork to assist in describing and diagnosin...

A rock music Per Cent for Art initiative where 27 students and three professional musicians collaborated to produce a CD.

The musicians were Peter Baxter and Chris Teusner, specialist music facilitators with Songschool, and Iain Archer, solo artist formerly with the band Snow Patrol.