The work that took place at Arigna Fuels was proposed to be a process orientated one, and had no end point in mind when it was proposed or when it commenced. A methodology was outlined. Its objectives were to interact with the factory's work force and to use the outcomes of this interaction as th...

The work consists of large scale abstract sculpture which is mounted on both faces of the spine wall at the entrance to the school. The forms are drawn from investigation of the schools identity while working as artists-in-residence with the students and the wider school community. Investigations...

Herakles and the Stympalian Birds is an internal, wall mounted artwork presented in two parts. The main work is located in The Source Arts Centre library, and explores methods of writing up to the 20th Century. The second postscript piece of the work is located in the centre foyer, relating to 21...

A series of Virgin Mary statues, cast from butter, placed in the freezer cabinets of a local shop and supermarket in Ballinspittle. The statues referenced the butter sculptures made by Buddhist monks of the East. 

A series of Virgin Mary statues, originally objects of worship and devotion,...

Open Window/ A Clinically Useful Artwork? forms part of an ongoing clinical research into the influence of contemporary art in an acute care environment, (the National Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Denis Burkitt Ward, St.James's Hospital). In part one of the work Denis Roche devised a ...

Folly takes the form of acts of foolishness, both premeditated and unforeseen. Stage One sets out to explore the way in which the nonhuman world resists our intentions and thwarts human mastery. A 3.3m tower constructed from steel and scrap wood was erected and anchor...

These images are part of an ongoing series of performative photographs, staging a liminal zone of undecidability between the human and non-human worlds. These assemblages lean towards the limits of the human, absurd in their efforts to suggest modes of emergent subjectivity

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...

This Time This Place took place throughout 2006. Photographer, Jim Vaughan was commissioned to work with the people of Clare Island on a photography project which was open to everyone on the Island. Jim’s proposal was to produce a body of work that would “challenge stereotypical ideas ...

Recorded over eighteen months, this three-part work focuses on a collection of ancient and contemporary superstitions and beliefs from people living in and around the town of Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. Each work allows the viewer into the shared imaginary space which exists within the psyche of a comm...