Restless: Liffey Love is a public art project created using waste plastic rescued from the River Liffey and returned to the Liffey quaysides in the form of two love seat sculptures ‘Restless‘; a new destination in the city. Commissioned by Dublin City Council in 2023 through the Dublin City Public Art Program which has three strands Public + Art + City. Rhona has collaborated with the Irish Nautical trust on the Liffey Sweeper to collect plastic waste from the River Liffey and repurposed it into sheet material with Paltech Polymer engineers to create a social sculpture in the form of love seats with Billings Jackson Design and Steel Smith and placed on the North Campshires of the River on the North Wall Quays. This project that considers connection and what it means to love our city, rethink materials of everyday life and nurture a sense of collective civic engagement. This project is realised through the support of Dublin City Council Arts office and the artists collaborators Paltech, Green Generation, Irish Nautical Trust, Billings Jackson Design, Steel Smith and Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club.
See the project website www.liffeylove.com
Press coverage https://linktr.ee/liffeylove?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
watch the story of Restless Liffey Love on RTE Nationwide https://www.rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10008772-25-0017
Restless : Liffey Love photo by Malcom Mc Gettigan
Photo By Ben Leahy
processing plastic at Paltech Polymer Engineers. Photo by Malcolm Mc Gettigan
Logo designed by Oonagh Young
On the Liffey Sweeper collecting plastic Rhona Byrne Jimmy Murray Thomas Murray Tom Greely photo by Malcolm Mc Gettigan
The Liffey Sweeper initiated by Irish Nautical Trust
Sorting plastic on the Liffey Sweeper Liffey love