Visit From Seamus Nolan

Visit from Hotel Ballymun Artist, Seamus Nolan.

31^st March

We were delighted to welcome Seamus Nolan, a Dublin based artist to our studio here in the college. We had all heard of Seamus most famous work – the Hotel Ballymun Project and were looking forward to talking to him as we are doing a project with similar aspects. We presented some of our work to date to him which included different sleep spaces and different uses of materials

We were intrigued with his presentation on different artists who have used materials for different purposes than they were originally intended which gave us a lot of ideas. We were also delighted to hear from him about Hotel Ballymun and how it all worked as a community project and not just as an art installation. We also were interested in hearing how he came across some difficulties regarding regulations as we had experienced similar problems which we have since overcome.

We would like to thank Seamus for taking time out to come and talk to us and broadening our thinking towards this kind of project.