See guys…I told you..they glow at night, when the park closes and when everyone has gone home. We were just tidying up the last few things this evening when this happened and we took some shots to show you. It was so beautiful….
Thanks for all your hard work today helping me plant the field.
Sweet dreams
Sinead 
This project was funded by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office
Sticky Tape was a temporary initiative, site specific to Riverbank Centre in Newbridge. The main objective of the work was to physically represent the presence of a collective community back within the space. The centre had previously been closed and remained off limits to the public during that time. Read the rest of this entry »
The latest project installed at The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery. This piece is part of the outreach residency programme ‘The Garden Project’ which I began last February. The piece is made from hundreds of chenille lengths. The idea of this piece was to communicate a sense of tactility through presenting new imaginative organic forms .
Ok ……..so while the current project is in the works, here are some 2006 participatory projects uploaded.
THE WISH PROJECT
…..was funded by Dublin City Council’s Events Department as an outdoor art-based event. Although free, the event was ticketed and structured into 8 workshops held over 1 weekend, the result being the white flowers left standing on Merrion Square Park hill for 1 week. Each flower contained a person’s wish. Each flower was made out of polyproplene paper, the kind used in ordnance survey maps, to remain weatherproof for the week.
The concept of the piece derived from the Japanese custom of The Wish Tree, where the public write wishes onto paper before folding and tying it around a branch of a tree. The trees can be found outside Japanese temples. Over time the trees become covered in what appear as hundreds of white ‘paper’ flowers/blossoms from a distance.
So within the workshop, everyone was invited to write a wish down on paper before folding the sheet into an origami flower and then placing it into a white wooden stem. The stems were then individually secured into the ground.
SUMMER
…this project was commissioned by the Education Department at The Hughlane Gallery, Dublin 1.
Simple shapes were cut out of coloured polypropylene sheets by workshop participants and hung to represent tree tops suspended in air. The workshops were held at the gallery and opened to the public/ passers by who wished to participate. Read the rest of this entry »
Sinéad Mc Geeney 
