Changing Tracks was a contemporary visual and digital art project that facilitated the creation of nine new temporary outdoor artworks in three countries by three international artists as part of the European Union’s Culture Programme 2007-2013. The artworks responded to former railway l...

‘Vestibule’, was initiated and devised by independent curator Aoife Tunney. It ran from 16th May to 20th September 2014 in Merrion Square, Dublin, and curated works responded to and considered the architecture and history of the iconic Georgian square. An ou...

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...

‘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...

In 2005, Gerard Byrne spent several months documenting glasshouses in the rural areas of Rush and Lusk, County Dublin. The artist produced a series of 20 photographs which portrayed the glasshouse as embodying an 'architecture of market gardening activity'. The photographs were housed in a s...

'Crann Saoilse' (2003) consists of a wall composed of black and white stone cubes, set in a chequered board pattern.

Dimensions:  

30.5 meters long x 3 meters high x 2.5 meters wide

Materials:

Stone cubes (76.2 x 76.2x 76.2 cm):

Portuguese limestone - Moleanos - (white)...

'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 d...

'The Ark of Tides' (2003) was a sculptural, photographic and socially engaged art commission which was temporarily located at Pollan Beach, Ballyliffin, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

The project was inspired by the life of Fr. John Colgan, O.F.M. (1592-1658) – a hagiographer whose family came from th...

Together and Apart (2001) is a cast-iron sculpture of a lone figure, with head slightly bowed and arms pressed close to the body. It is one of a series of five figures, created in a similar style to Gormley's famous anthropomorphic body cast series of the 1980s.

It was not originally commission...

In 2003, Breaking Ground, the Ballymun Regeneration Ltd art commission programme commissioned internationally acclaimed artist Jochen Gerz through an open competition to work in an engaged way in Dublin. He was to embark on a major project, still unfinished, working in the nei...