The Unit project offered an alternative way of commissioning public art projects in the town and surrounds of Portlaoise. The projects structure was designed to be supportive of thinking, making and writing. The ethos of the project was to work by mutually investing in the key pa...

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...

Medusae is the Latin term for jellyfish. Drawing on both poetic and literal interpretations of the theme, Dorothy and Tom Cross' Medusae weaves documentary style narratives and explicit demonstrations of the swimming techniques of the jellyfish with vignettes, referencing the imagin...

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...

The Keepsakes project by Hughes consisted of various members of the local community have placing a memento, object, poem or photograph in each of the spheres.

Participants were also asked to contribute a piece born from a consideration of their own lives, memories and values in relation ...

Heteratopic Glitch is a performance work by artists Anne Ffrench and Aideen Barry originally commissioned for Kinsale Arts Week 2008. The brief was to create a performance work that would be publicly viewable, taking into account the historical coastal town of Kinsale in its presentat...

Windowall is a temporary public art project by artist Caroline McCarthy, commissioned for Letterkenny by Donegal County Council and Letterkenny Town Council, and funded th...

A film project  based on collected interviews with local residents, community groups and historians about the Greenfort in Sligo.

Artist Grace Weir became interested in local people's thoughts about the ancient archaeological site, the Greenfort. She comments:

"There is...

The project involved the formation of a group comprising of fifteen individuals who worked alongside the artist in the production of a new body of video work. The process involved the artist introducing the group to methodologies and approaches used by artists when producing new work, from the in...

Tallaght (Chiarascuro) for String Quartet was composed by Stephen Gardner and performed by the Hibernia String Trio and Michael d'Arcy, and was recorded onto CD during 2000.

It was commissioned by South Dublin County Council during 2000, under the auspices of the <i...