BREAKING GROUND 2002 - 2010

Breaking Ground, the percent for art programme for Ballymun Regeneration Limited, was launched in Ballymun in February 2002. To date Breaking Ground has launched some of the most significant, diverse and challenging public art projects in Ireland, and has been celebrated widely for contributing to the development of contemporary art projects in a socially engaged context.

Breaking Ground has commissioned over 48 projects in 8 years, including permanent bronze works such as Andrew Clancy's 'Cathode / Anode' located outside the main civic building in Ballymun, and large scale temporary projects such as Seamus Nolan's 'Hotel Ballymun'.

Breaking Ground has created intelligent debate and discussion about contemporary art, challenging perceptions about what can be achieved within communities. As such Breaking Ground has successfully pursued two key aims: to bring attention nationally and internationally to projects organised within Ballymun; and to expand and enrich the lives of communities through experiences with contemporary art.


Breaking Ground's final series of commissions will wind up by the end of 2010.


To contact Breaking Ground:
Ray Yeates, Artistic Director
ray.yeates@axis-ballymun.ie
Tel (01) 883 2100