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...

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 ...

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...

A live performance of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's seventeenth-century acclaimed arrangement of the Stabat Mater Dolorosa in a remote slate quarry and Marian grotto on the western edge of Valentia Island, County Kerry.

There was a distinct secular, profane, and even mundane quality to this rec...

Knock Knock is both a crossover point and a celebration. It embraces photography, art in the community, architecture, social document and local history. Through the deep investigation and getting to know a smaller area and community of a place, the artist by literally knocking on doors ass...

This theatre project, The Avenue was an art commission which took place in Listowel and Lixnaw, County Kerry in 2004. The play was written by playwright Christian O'Reilly and directed by theatre director Jessica Curtis. It is set in present day Listowel and is a personal story, exploring ...

Founded in 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts (ACA) aims to promote and provide contemporary visual art to the locale of Askeaton Co Limerick. Within this, Welcome to the Neighbourhood is an annual programme of invited international and Irish artists who live and work in the town o...

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...

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...

Trespass is a collaborative project initiated by artists Seoidín Ó Sullivan and Aoife Desmond. It engaged research and action with forgotten urban space and abandoned landscapes within Dublin City. Over a period of three years they visited and worked with several sites in Dublin City.Tresp...