Youth Centre
January - May 2006
Commissioned by Leitrim County Council Arts Office

Youth Centre project involved working with a group of secondary school students for a five month period to envisage a new public amenity in the locality of Carrick-on-Shannon. The project generated a series of sketches, texts, and architectural models that were exhibited as part of the Imagined - Visions of Architecture show at The Dock arts centre.

The project attempted to alter the student's experience of their familier urban locality, through undertaking concrete creative acts that imagined fictional spaces against the background of the existing townscape.

“The drawing as wish” - Peter Cook, Archigram Group.

Forgotten Zine Archive
2004 - ongoing

The Forgotten Zine Archive is a collection of over 1000 zines and related print material – self-published writings and art, radical political newsprint, and alternative press. It is not just a collection of niche publications, but is the complex of recent histories of cultural and political undergrounds in Ireland and abroad made physically manifest. As the product of several individuals personal collections (some of whom are themselves fanzine authors) it is also a testement to the relationship of individuals to the social as represented through both production and consumption.

The Forgotten Zine Archive has existed publically in various forms since 2004 - as a reading library in the former Warehouse space in Dublin and now in the Seomra Sproai social centre; as part of Zine Show at Anthology Books in the summer of 2006; and as a component in artist Sarah Pierce's work for the Irish pavillion in the 2005 Venice Biennale and the follow-up show at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork.