A participatory public art project commissioned by Galway City Council’s Arts Office. The project had two primary strands of inquiry: to engage directly with the residents of the Sliabh Bán Estate Ballybane where the commission was located, and to initiate a city-wide dialogue on public art in...

Paul Gregg’s Per Cent for Art commission for St Mary’s CBS comprised four distinct but interrelated strands which activated the interior of the building as well as the expansive school grounds.

‘Ancient Ecology Pavilion’ is a viewing area set into a grass embankment on the schoo...

A tiled wall design created by Gearóid Muldowney for the courtyard of Colaiste Pobail Setanta secondary school in Phibblestown, Dublin 15. 67 ft of wall, to a height of 6ft, was tiled with 3240 ceramic tiles in 5 different colours. The installation abstractly depicts flags of the nations of the ...

‘Liffeytown’ was a public artwork devised for the river Liffey in Dublin as part of the city’s Fringe Festival in September 2010. The installation comprised 11 red and green Perspex and steel ‘Monopoly houses and hotels’ (each measuring 2m x 2m x 2.5m) which were anchored in place, and ...

‘Fan Nóiméad’ (Wait a Minute) is a contemporary pavilion, designed and made in collaboration between Headford Men's Shed, traditional boat builder Patrick Connolly and artist Gareth Kennedy. The pavilion (1.8m x 3.5m x 2.3m) was constructed using all native-grown Irish Green Oak and Larch w...

Aristotle's Walk (2012) is a columnar structure which marks the entrance to a memorial garden situated in the central courtyard of St Mary’s CBS, Portlaoise. The columns were fabricated in fibreglass, coated in granite dust, and filled with sand and cement, providing the impression of solid sto...

Artist and curator Stephen Brandes and Curator Brigid Harte were commissioned by Breaking Ground to make a work which in some way commented on the move some families were making from the old flats and houses into newer, better homes. 

Superbia was a temporary exhibition which was prese...

Five short operas that capture forgotten ‘thrown away’ moments from the streets of Dublin by composer Brian Irvine and writer John McIlduff, The series was produced by Wide Open Opera as part of the Dublin City Public Art Programme, and the operas were performed in public places around Dublin...

A public art commission, curated by Vincent O'Shea for Kerry County Council, which saw the creation of a new fictional custom or ‘folk rite’ for the village of Gneeveguilla in County Kerry.

Over the summer of 2011, artist Gareth Kennedy worked with the local people of Gneeveguilla to ...

An innovative public art project (2014) by American artist Sven Anderson and curated by Dublin City Council Public Arts Manager, Ruairi Ó Cuív.

It explored the possible role of an ‘urban acoustic planner’ or ‘urban sound designer’ working within Dublin City Council...