Scoil Náisiúnta Mhuire Naofa, Rathfeigh, Tara, Co.Meath SPRING 2010
This per cent for art scheme art project was created in collaboration with a landscape designer and the pupils of the school.
It is a living sculpture of hornbeam trees that have been pleached into a circular formation to represent Wood.
The Fort is represented in the dry stone oval seating arrangement.
There are 8 seats, one for each class and embedded within each seat is a time capsule containing each pupils written word and artwork projects in which they were asked to explore the theme ME.
The centerpiece of the sculpture is a Mosaic which I have designed and made to represent the local river Hurley.
A specific request from the school was to include a drinking fountain and this has been placed in the centre of the mosaic.
The filtered water for the fountain is sourced indirectly from the river Hurley via the river Boyne.