switch is an exciting new initiative which provides an accessible alternative viewing platform for contemporary visual art. In its inaugural year eight art works (lens based media) were shown simultaneously in various locations in the Nenagh town centre every evening during the last week o...

The haiku is a a very old form of poetry originating in Japan. It consists of seventeen syllables, spread over three lines. Its brevity allows the form to create something like an instant verbal image. It's a form whose use can be taught quickly, and is now very widely practiced in the West. It i...

A relief sculpture made of handmade glass, bronze and plaster commissioned as part of the construction of the new county hall in Swords, County Dublin. The architecturally ambitious building demanded artworks to match its unique presence and so it was agreed that artists would be invited to the ...

Open Window/ A Clinically Useful Artwork? forms part of an ongoing clinical research into the influence of contemporary art in an acute care environment, (the National Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Denis Burkitt Ward, St.James's Hospital). In part one of the work Denis Roche devised a ...

120 metres high and 3 metres in diameter at the base, the stainless steel monument was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects (London) and rises above O’Connell Street. Ritchie has explained that he polished pattern at its base "can be read as mirrored seas or lakes or, conversely, a...

A monumental inflatable replica sculpture, twice the scale of the 6,000 year old megalithic portal tomb of the same name, located in the Burren, Co. Clare

The Poulnabrone Bouncy Dolmen by Jim Ricks is designed for members of the public, of all ages, to interact with. The artwork will be t...

On/Off states took place on an incomplete and apparently abandoned construction site that now dominates a small, rural Leitrim village. One house, in the very early stages of construction, was utilised specifically as an example of a structure, considered under the current NAMA catego...

The first part to be completed denotes the present and is physically represented by an already existing ancient site of stone mounds of which an additional one was constructed by the artist on 6/6/2006. This is located on Kilronan mountain, over looking the town of Keadue in Co. Roscommon. Stone ...

A 20 minute sound piece, Time, was constructed solely from sounds emanating into the chapel on one day during October 2005. The artist had come to see it as being a type of recording device of the ever changing fate’s of the towns population since it was built. 50 CD’s were placed anon...