The recent DRAWDA art trail proved how art in public spaces can make a huge positive difference to our lives. Now Louth County Council is seeking public feedback on the choice of a new artwork to be installed in Drogheda. .
Louth County Council recently tendered for an artist to create an artwork to be placed in the proposed Meeting Space at Peters Hill which aims to establish a new shared meeting space and to create a new identity for this area within Drogheda’s Heritage Quarter.
The Council’s tender sought an artwork that resonates with the spatial and physical aspects of the new space, of contemporary expression, in response to the character of this new public space.
The new artwork will be placed centrally within the new Meeting Space and will be designed and fabricated to withstand an outdoor urban environment.
Artists were invited ‘to consider ideas relating to light, incorporating light, regenerative fire, regeneration, renewal, coinciding events, church bells, sound waves, growth and regrowth, or other concepts relating to Drogheda communities, collaboration and inclusion, giving tangible form to aspects of meeting spaces’.
The successful artist will be responsible for the design, creation, site delivery and liaising with the Consulting Engineers in the installation – which is expected to take place this September.
Three artworks were submitted and as part of the community engagement and participation, members of the public are now being invited to give their views on which of the three design proposals would be their preferred choice.
The results of this process is just one of the many elements that the assessment panel will take into consideration in their deliberations, but an important aspect which will also generate huge interest and comment.
The three artworks are entitled:
- Artwork – Concept Picture 1
- Infinity Spiral – Concept Picture 2
- Inspired to Meet – Concept Picture 3
Click here to vote for your preferred design. Closing date is Thursday 5th May at 5pm.
This project is a commission by Louth County Council, and supported by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). Match-funding has been provided by the Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development in Ireland.
