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.