Rung by Rung (2009) was created for the interior courtyard space of the new Pearse Street Heath Care Centre. The piece is a 30-foot tall, bright white ladder, created using aluminium and neon tube lighting, which is suspended in such a way that it seems to levitate at a 45º angle against the wal...

‘Saoirse Cainte’ (Freedom of speech) is an 18ft tall, laser-cut stainless steel sculpture which was commissioned for a new school, Coláiste Ailigh College in Letterkenny.

Mulholland based her design on the written word and the cultural heritage of County Donegal, while the sculpture’s fo...

The sculpture comprises 64 life-size cast bronze lifejackets, configured as a tower. Base-mounted spot-lighting illuminates the tower at night. The theme for this art work is derived from a familiar maritime symbol and a metaphor for human insecurity and survival. The tower memorialises the tragi...

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 their 40...

The Balloon Tree artworks playfully welcome children, young people and families to two facilities located at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown and Tallaght Hospital. The signature artworks, by artist Róisín de Buitléar, were commissioned for integration into the main entrance spaces i...

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 and Denis Connolly (collaborative duo Connolly-Clear...

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 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...

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...