By the Way

Author:

Ann Lane

Description:

This book is a register of 760 pieces of public art with photos, captions containing titles, artists’ names, locations, and symbolism where relevant. The public art works are presented alphabetically, by province, county and town or village.  

As the title suggests, it consists mainly of roadside works and the author spent over a year in research before taking a single photograph for this book. By the Way features a vast range of styles of the public art that graces our countryside – towns, villages, parks, motorways and roundabouts – from installations like The Miller Returns in the village of Sixmilebridge, to The Gaelic Chieftain on the Boyle bypass, to The Story of Stone (the longest piece of public art in the country) at McKeon Stone in Stradbally, to Sky Train in Lough Boora Parklands.

Much of the art included in this book exists because of the Per Cent for Art Scheme, where a Government decision in 1997 approved the inclusion in the budgets for public bodies delivering capital programmes of up to 1% as funding for public art, subject to certain limits.

Writers: Ann Lane

Publisher: Wordwell Books

ISBN: 978-1-905569-44-1

Available from: Most bookshops and online from www.wordwellbooks.com

Price: €29.50