Lord Mayor Hazel Chu and Sculpture Dublin programme director Karen Downey at the launch of the initiative today Image: Naoise Culhane Lord Mayor Hazel Chu and Sculpture Dublin programme director Karen Downey at the launch of the initiative today Image: Naoise Culhane DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL is to invest €600,000 in the commissioning of six new sculptures for parks and public spaces across Dublin in the next 18 months.
A temporary sculpture will also be commissioned for the O’Connell Plinth, an empty plinth outside City Hall on Dame Street, which once supported John Hogan’s statue of Daniel O’Connell, now on display in the Rotunda of City Hall. For the site overlooking North Bull Island in St Anne’s Park, a major ‘land art’ work is planned. It will be an invited competition given the specialist nature of the art form.
“In the past couple of months, we have witnessed communities all over the world engage in sculpture in a renewed way. Sculpture represents who we are, where we come from, and where we are going,” Chu said.
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