In 2007 Bik van der Pol noticed a half finished site in Tallght, South Dublin. A nice green pitch, a half built concrete stand, with fences all around. Nothing seemed to happen there, even though it was located in the very heart of Tallaght, where...

Celestial Salt is a visual art project that saw six artists bring an artwork that was originally created and exhibited in an art context to the rural environment surrounding The Good Hatchery in December 2009. This publication contains document...

House Projects was a series of seven exhibitions spanning five months over four cities, three countries, and two continents; with the participation of seven coordinators/curators, forty-nine artists and eight writers. Self initiated by prac...

Noel Bowler was commissioned by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in 2008 to undertake a year-long residency as part of the Place & Identity Per Cent for Art Programme. He undertook an extensive body of photographic work in the Isl...

The Lebensreform [life reform] in the title of this book is a tenuous link to a previous century and a collection of ideals and aspirations that still hold purchase. In a striking split of right wing/ left wing political affiliations, the life ref...

The Umbrella Project publication by artist Rhona Byrne documents an event on 11.03.06 where the public were invited to participate in a series of  walking tours ; Urban Wildlife/ Historical/ Architectural Heritage/ Docklands/ Multicult...

A million everyday journeys course through the veins of Dublin, giving it life (or poisoning it?). These journeys range in scale and rhythm from the incessant and anonymous flow of motorway traffic, through the familiar trundling of a local bus jo...

Inside-Outside is a public art collaborative project by artist Catherine Delaney for Wicklow County Council's Per Cent For Art Programme for 2007-2008. An ephemeral based site specific project in collaboration with six members of the commun...

In autumn 2008, Andrew Dodds worked with Jenni Roche, an ecologist from Trinity College Dublin, to document and produce a forensic biodiversity survey of the vegetation at two brownfield sites in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim. The project, Arcadia...

The Nurses' Home is a photographic documentary of the Mater College of Nursing, which was built in 1954. The buildings primary function was as living quarters and lecture rooms for Mater Hospital nurses during their training. The work was m...

The Soft Edge is the title of a public art project by artist Aileen Lambert, commissioned by Wexford County Council which centred on the townsland of Creagh, on the edge of Gorey town, Co. Wexford.

This publication documents a project which involved exploring old routes in the Bekan, Ballindine and Tulrahan areas in County Mayo. It features photos of sites and documentation of guided tours which were undertaken as part of the project. Short ...

Yesterday's Papers is a publication compiled and edited by Sean Lynch. It presents an overview of newspaper coverage of art and artists in Ireland in the last fifty years, with photographs and articles drawn from national dailies and a sele...

A collection of poems written as a year-long public art project for The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim in 2005-2006. The poems were installed on the main staircase of The Dock and in some cases on the surrounding walls of the main hall. <...

RIVERwork(s) is a reflection of three related activities that engaged with a specific landscape and an eclectic range of individuals both living and dead. Contributions include: Dermot Healy - writer, Bryonie Reed - Researcher in Cultural G...

This publication completes the art-project Aggressive Localism and Trade-Off, launched in 2008 at the Dock Art Centre in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim as part of AFTER - responding to a changed landscape.
 
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Cherry Orchard (Gropina Revisited/ beasts boats and things) is an artists' book published, 2009 as part of Per Cent for Art Scheme commission for Cherry Orchard National School, Dublin, by artist Janet Mullarney  and funded by the Depa...

Two Souls in One Breast was produced in 2009, as part of a commission with Wicklow County Council and funded under Per Cent for Art Scheme.

From 31st March to the 27th of April 2007 the top floor of the Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, opened its doors to the public in the form of a unique short stay hotel. Artist Seamus Nolan was commissioned by Break...

"The remarkable series of photographs that Abigail O'Brien produced at the Oatfield Sweet Factory at Letterkenny in County Donegal can be read on many levels. The most prosaic interpretation would focus on the documentary nature of these work...