dermot foley landscape architects

project: sculpture in the parklands client: sculpture in the parklands, offaly county council team: d.foley b.kinsella location: offaly site: 40 hectares design: 2008 status: management strategy
sculpture in the parklands landscape management strategy won the 2009 irish landscape institute awards heritage and conservation category.

'A sophisticated and imaginative project, which resolves a conflict between its two heritages - industry and ecology. The work prepares within this previously industrial landscape a subtle and ordered
structure that allows the artworks to respond to the place, while allowing the ecology and biodiversity to evolve. It acknowledges the cultural heritage and works as an underpinning landscape strategy; responding to the latent geometries of the site, both natural and
man-made. It is a project of renewal and invention, and the openness and easy access provided is to be highly lauded. A contemporary and artful intervention, which brings visitors to a previously industrial bogland -
highlighting succession and the interaction between nature and art in a very delicate and fragile landscape. It is also positive to see the project continuing at a careful pace that includes addition and management.' jury comments, irish landscape institute awards 2009