MARKING 25
Common Ground has been working across the communities of Inchicore, Rialto and Bluebell since 1999. To mark and acknowledge our work throughout the last 25 years we have begun to organise our archive alongside which we have created the commission MARKING 25 to celebrate the 25 years of work with artists and the community. This is in particular response to the breadth of audiovisual documentation housed in the archive.
In 2025 we commissioned artists Frank Sweeney and Veronica Dyas to work together on site with full access to Common Ground’s archive. This artistic commission drew from archive paper files along with the audiovisual documentation in the archive. Veronica has produced a written text in response to the archive and it will be housed alongside the archive when it is opened to the community later this summer. Frank has digitised over 200 hours of footage and Common Ground will work with Frank to plan how this footage can be presented back to the community and stakeholders who ‘live’ in this archive.
Frank is an artist with a research-based practice, using found material to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound.
Veronica is an artist working primarily through new text, installation and performance.
