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 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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Artist and curator Stephen Brandes and Curator Brigid Harte were commissioned by Breaking Ground to make a work which in some way commented on the move some families were making from the old flats and houses into newer, better homes. 

Superbia was a temporary exhibition which was prese...

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...