The brief for this commission was to create a sculpture for the new space in Kilkenny Courthouse. The Courthouse space is a three storey-high public entrance, glazed on two sides so the sculpture is also visible from the public realm of the street outside. The sculpture also forms a focal point f...

In an attempt to find the right words... was created by artist James L Hayes and commissioned by Mayo County Council for Áras Inis Gluaire. The work consists of over 2000 bronze cast pencils which appear to have been launched (dart-like) onto the wall. The tip of the pencil touches the wh...

Creagh Primary wished to commission a sculpture to be created and installed in the grounds of their school and they wanted it to reflect the ethos of the school. After a number of consultations with teachers and children we created a small group of children that I would consult with on the design...

The  Boyle Arts Festival is now in its twenty-first year and in that time has exhibited works from some of Ireland's leading visual artists. The intention of the alter / native project is to position itself as a compliment to or an expansion of the official exhibition represented in K...

This Per Cent for Art project arose out of the Leitrim Towns and Villages Sewerage Infrastructure Scheme which provided for upgrading of sewerage facilities in eleven communities in county Leitrim. The multiplicity and the rural nature of the locations affected by the capital works programme prov...

The work consists of twenty-eight custom built outdoor wall lights, one per parking bay. The lights make a slow continuous ripple change of colour, these are randomly selected by built in microcontroller. Internally the lights are installed with red, green and blue leds, making hundreds of potent...

A 12 foot by 5 foot highly detailed stained glass light-box, installed in the entrance foyer to Lucan Library, took over nine months of intensive research and production and is a contemporary portrait of the people and the suburban and rural landscapes of one of Ireland's fastest growing satellit...

Farmfilm is an exhibition of film works by young people from Belvedere Youth Club (Buckingham Street, Dublin 1)who developed work at Airfield (Dublin 14) for a year in partnership with film maker,

Laura Fitzgerald’s practice combines elements of drawing, installation, works on paper and video. Ideas which inform her work relate to memory, nostalgia, real and imagined histories, per...

Oiche na nDeich Seol was a festival created by children for children and adults. My proposal was to work with the children in supporting them to host their own public event for the local public. I wanted everything that was in the festival to be based on the children's interpretation of th...