Kilmainhaim Mills Dublin
2024
4 Posters, 841 x 1189 mm
Typeface: Helvetica
Inkjet printing on Classic Couche Matte paper 230 g/m², 1118 mm x 30 m
Project supervised by Claire Campion and the cultural managers of Kilmainham Mill, within the BUREAU+ studio.
As part of the reopening of Kilmainham Mill — a former textile production site in Dublin closed since 2000 — a call for projects was launched by the Heritage Conservation Department. It invited designers to propose an artistic intervention capable of reactivating the site and embedding it in a contemporary dynamic.
We sought to reactivate the site's DNA through the creation of jewelry, brooches, and veils made from materials abandoned on-site — wood, twine, wool — in collaboration with Sophie Ana Burns, Myla Sirvyte, Aoife O’Connor, and Christine Wang.
The photographs and the poster I created integrate sharp colored rectangles that disrupt a muted palette: like vibrant signals, they embody a present in the process of emerging.
The vertical bands structuring the poster evoke both weaving looms — directly referencing the site’s textile history — and 1970s–80s film photography, alluding to the era when the mill was still operational.