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...

The OPW commissioned Jesse Jones to make work, supported by Create, under the auspices of the per cent for art scheme for the Convention Centre Dublin (CCD), North Quay, a landmark building in Dublin’s Docklands area.

Over the course of nine months in 2013, Jones initiated different projects, ...

The Map Wall (2003) is a vertical, duel-sided structure, consisting of eight panels mounted on either side of a supporting wall which is made from reinforced concrete.

The stone panels are made from Mountcharles Granite, and measure 184cm x 100cm each, with the artwork’s overall dim...

The work, made of cast bronze and stainless steel, depicts a sea urchin positioned on its side and suspended in motion leaving a trail of metal silver droplets.

It is as if the sea urchin has been thrown up onto the shore by a wave. Positioned at a slight angle, we can follow the moving...

When all the workshops were completed and all the data was collected, Kay looked at ways of interpreting this work into a format which both used the images and reflected the work made in the school. A book was therefore ideal as it allowed for a maximum input from the children's work (photos) wit...

The artwork consists of a large hand-dyed and printed silk installation, pieced and embellished with stitch, which is hung in the entrance area of the new school building for permanent display. Allie worked closely with the pupils at the school, creating textile artworks for them to keep and also...

Suspended ten metres above the atrium, ‘Skylum’ was a large inflatable ‘air balloon’ type structure, approximately 15 metres in length. The title came from the artist’s aim to create an ‘alternative sky’ within the Atrium space. The artwork had its own internal lighting source, maki...

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...

Tell Me Something (2014) was an interactive, site-specific, mixed media installation. It took the form of a large, white, luminous ring positioned two thirds of the way up the iconic 52-metre red-brick chimney stack at the former Golden Vale Factory in Limerick city. This prominent location allow...

Kelly’s work is made of copper bronze and depicts the four figures of the children (Of Lir), and four swans: according to the legend the children were transformed into swans for 300 years. 

A plaque next to the statue carries the words:

“In the darkness of despair we saw a vi...