Commissioned jointly by Our Lady's hospital for sick children and the Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Subaquatic Dublin presents an underwater version of Dublin thriving with fish citizens. The aquarium holds seven tons of water. Replicas of landmark Irish buildings along with tower cran...

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...

‘Sculpture for Derry Walls’ (1987) was a three-part sculpture placed in three particular locations along the city’s seventeenth century fortified walls: on the east overlooking the Foyle River, over the Bogside by the remains of the Walker Monument and on the Bastion overlooking the Fountai...

Together and Apart (2001) is a cast-iron sculpture of a lone figure, with head slightly bowed and arms pressed close to the body. It is one of a series of five figures, created in a similar style to Gormley's famous anthropomorphic body cast series of the 1980s.

It was not originally commission...

The work that took place at Arigna Fuels was proposed to be a process orientated one, and had no end point in mind when it was proposed or when it commenced. A methodology was outlined. Its objectives were to interact with the factory's work force and to use the outcomes of this interaction as th...

A site-specific artwork created for St. Catherine’s National School in Rush, County Dublin. It is made up of two parts: a cluster of sound-and-light-producing sculptures in the school’s entry stairwell, and a sensor tower outside of the school. Curated by Jennie Guy, the commission was funde...

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 idea for Amaptocare (a map to care) was to invert the routine of social housing and institutional urbanism by inviting the residents in Ballymun to make a public, fiscal donation to their own area, and by so doing asserting their agency with regard to their immediate environment.

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Strata is a site specific artwork conceived for the Galway City Museum by the artist Joy Gerrard. The work is composed of layers and clusters of individually suspended glass balls and delicate arrangements of circular steel discs installed on the walls to balance the composition of th...

This project involved an outdoor performance and a separate film work. The performance and filming took place in a natural amphitheatre called “Horseshoe Bay” on Sherkin Island which is located off the coast of West Cork in Ireland.   

This work was entitled “Drift’ and in...