A film project  based on collected interviews with local residents, community groups and historians about the Greenfort in Sligo.

Artist Grace Weir became interested in local people's thoughts about the ancient archaeological site, the Greenfort. She comments:

"There is...

A sculptural light installation in blue and green LED lights, in the Civic Centre Ballymun, creating the illusion of bringing two corners of the atrium together.

Commissioned by Breaking Ground, the Ballymun Regeneration Per Cent for Art programme, Corban Walker was asked to address the va...

Leisure Centre is an 18-minute film, shot in the new leisure centre situated on Main Street, Ballymun, and features a cast of local residents. It was commissioned by 

Hotel Ballymun was conceived by artist Seamus Nolan. From 23 March to 27 April 2007, the 15th floor of Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, was transformed into a short stay hotel.  Nolan ...

Theresa Nanigian's Two Souls in One Breast was a series of works based on her enquiry into the town of Enniskerry, County Wicklow over the course of 2007-8.  It was funded under Wicklow County Council's P...

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...

Cavan County Council Arts Office appointed Orla Murphy and Dermot McCabe as architects-in-residence with a purposely open brief to facilitate an opportunity for young architects to think and work as artists within the theme of Cavan Re-Imagined.

An exhibition of the work by the architects...

The Unit project offered an alternative way of commissioning public art projects in the town and surrounds of Portlaoise. The projects structure was designed to be supportive of thinking, making and writing. The ethos of the project was to work by mutually investing in the key pa...

Andrew Kearney was curated by Breaking Ground in 2002,, to make a non-permanent installation to mark the beginning of the series of art commissions attendant to the Ballymun regeneration programme. After consulting with residents, Andrew made a public artwork which illuminated...

Through re-staging and re-appropriating of the 'drive-in', the artist Jesse Jones created a collective social and political space. Set in the disused industrial setting of Pigeon House, a site formerly familiar for manufacturing in Dublin's Docklands. This concept of drive-in was reminiscent of t...