I initiated The South Circular Road Community Garden Project while artist-in-residence in Studio 468, St Andrews Community Centre, Rialto. The studio is managed by Common Ground along with representatives from Dublin City Council Arts Office and Rialto Development Association. In exchange for the studio residency period all artists are asked to identify a community group in the Rialto area that they will engage with during their studio award time. I worked with members of the evicted Dolphins Barn Garden to establish the Garden. We have a site on loan from ST Salvage Company that has planning permission on it for apartment blocks that we have converted into a community food garden. This is a continuation of the initial successful Dolphins Barn Community squatted food garden that was on the canal from 2005-2007.

O'Sullivan's art practice is largely project based. Her research investigates socio- political and ecological narratives which she represents in critically engaged and poetical ways. O'Sullivan was artist in residence at Airfield Trust where she developed The Urban Farm Art Project. She participated in a two month residency at The Land Foundation in Thailand as part of One Year Project 2 in 2008. She was artist in resident in Studio 468, St Andrews Community Centre, Rialto in 2007 where she worked on and developed The South Circular Road Community Food Garden Project.  

Her collaborative film project Trespass in collaboration with Irish artist Aoife Desmond was awarded Irish Arts Council funding in 2007 and will be exhibited in The Lab in March 2009. Her project Tactic in collaboration with South African artist Ralph Borland was awarded an incubation space in The LAB and was awarded an Arts Council New Work Project Award in 2009.

Members of The Community Garden, local neighbours, Griffith Barracks School, St John of God’s, Eco UNESCO, Rialto Youth Project have participated in the project. 

Everyone volunteering on the project brings their specific skill set to the project.