Tower Songs is a long term city-wide arts project in Dublin, Ireland. The project seeks to make visible the collective memory and experience of a number of Dublin communities as they make the transition from tower block living, via major urban regeneration initiatives. Tower S...

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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Paddy Jolley was curated by Aisling Prior and commissioned by Breaking Ground to make a work to mark the impending demolition of Ballymun’s 1970’s tower blocks.

In the Autumn of 2003, and after a period of research and discussion locally, Jolley chose to work with two ot...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...