Sculptor Eamonn O’ Doherty was commissioned by Mayo County Council in 2006 to produce a sculpture for the Island of Inishturk. During consultation with the people of the Island they expressed a preference for a figurative sculpture, taking into consideration their lifestyl...

Crann an Óir (Tree of Gold) was commissioned by the Central Bank of Ireland to mark Dublin's year as European City of Culture in 1991. The work is comprised of a formalised tree in gilded bronze surrounded by a sectioned building in Wicklow granite.  The tree symbolises growth under careful...

Teanga - Aisling an Phobail is a stone labyrinth which was inspired by the St. Brigid’s cross – Ireland’s oldest peace symbol.

The labyrinth has been an archetypal form in O’Doherty’s work since the mid-1960s. Unlike the labyrinths of ancient mythology, O’Doherty’s labyrint...

Planting a Seed was a year-long commission created for Coláiste Íde agus Iosef Community College in Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick. The project was a collaboration between artists Augustine O'Donoghue and Carol Anne Connolly. The project aimed to link the school to a broader community through a serie...

Beth O'Halloran made an installation of floor-to-ceiling paintings of a forest at dawn for the foyer of the newly built Scoil Ghrainne Community NS, Phibblestown, Dublin 15 under a County Dublin VEC per cent for art scheme. Commissioned in 2010 she completed the work in early 2011. These very lar...

Deirdre O'Mahony and members of various communities, longstanding groups, newcomers, interested parties and artists spent a year looking at ways of answering the questions highlighted above. In re-activating the post office, a space with a history of being a site of exchange and social contact, t...

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 ...

In Spring 2008, Megs Morley, Public Arts Officer at Galway City Council, commissioned the artist to write a play as a Per Cent for Art project at Walter Macken Place, Mervue, Galway. Walter Macken Place is a social housing development of 96 apartments, the majority of which are occupied by elderl...

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...

This animated LED work by Julian Opie is installed on the forecourt of the Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery on Parnell Square, Dublin 1. It is just one part of a temporary installation of five animated LED installations which were sited along the central median of O’Connell Street and on Parn...