A Cork-based technology company asked Foinse to shape a coherent collection of works on paper for their new headquarters.
The client wanted to support emerging Irish artists and bring quiet depth to a working environment that already had a strong design identity.
Twenty-two works installed across two floors, each with a short note on the artist and the work's place in the collection.
Foinse curates art to shape the feel of a space. Each placement below answers a specific question the room was asking — a dwell point, a sense of movement, a quiet wall that rewarded close looking.
A clean, design-led arrival space with a strong existing visual identity. The risk was that anything decorative would clash; the brief was for work that felt of the building.
A large framed photogravure of an inland Irish landscape.
Brings landscape into a building that otherwise reads as wholly interior. Gives staff and visitors a sense of where they are without resorting to tourism imagery.
Small enclosed rooms used for one-to-one conversations and focused work. The brief was for work that rewarded the second and third viewing.
Pairs of small etchings, hung at seated eye level.
Suits rooms used slowly. Several staff have told us they only began to read the work properly weeks after installation — which is the point.
A long wall running the length of an open-plan working area. The brief avoided anything that would read as a single statement piece.
A horizontal sequence of nine works on paper from three artists.
Conveys movement along the floor and quiet at any one point. The wall registers from a distance as rhythm rather than as content competing for attention.
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