Sligo Local looked to generate support systems and the means to facilitate the self management and empowerment of artistic practice. Specifically at how discussion, collaborative engagement, artist-led activity and networks offer the kind of non-hierarchical support that grows a practice n...

A temporary public art project that brought a mythic, rural cottage into an urban environment, locating it on the roof of the former City Arts Centre's warehouse building in the heart of Dublin's financial district. It looked at the nature of the dream home; a concept that the modern property dev...

A collaborative music project informed by the historical connections between music and faith.

In 2007 a number of artists were selected to be part of Fingal County Council's Public Art Panel. The selected artists were invited to respond to a brief which reflected, either physically or theoretica...

Sean's Spiral (1984) is a steel, triangular-spiral sculpture, which was embedded into the cobblestoned road outside the main entrance to the former Guinness Hop Store (now The Digital Exchange) on Rainsford Street, Dublin in 1984, as a commission for that year's ROSC exhibition. The sculpture inc...

‘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...

An artist's book derived from the artists explorations of the harbour in Sligo and up river to Lough Gill. The work is based on the artists photography, filming, drawing and research into peoples local knowledge including walkers, residents and fishermen. 

Mackey spent much time in the Sli...

Public Arena is a triptych using three distinct medium which explore, animate and celebrate the socio-political journey of Tallaght Stadium. These include:

• A video film (33 min.), made in collaboration with students of Tallaght Community School and produced by Ali Curran. The script for ...

Founded in 2007, switch, an artist-led project aims to promote and show contemporary visual art in a public context. switch is run by artists Triona Ryan & Harald Turek and wo...

Personal Effects is a project which aims to uninstitutionalise the hospital through the illumination of its inhabitants' stories. This is done by slowly gathering fragments of lives from individuals passing through the institution and allowing these details and narratives to reappear on ho...

The work consists of twenty-eight custom built outdoor wall lights, one per parking bay. The lights make a slow continuous ripple change of colour, these are randomly selected by built in microcontroller. Internally the lights are installed with red, green and blue leds, making hundreds of potent...