Gallery of Works
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Lewis Glucksman Gallery
2005


A series of photographs commissioned by the Lewis Glucksman Gallery,Ireland in   May 2005 as an artistic response to the physical presence and visuality of the new gallery

 

Green Lands
2005


This work was commissioned by the E.U. Eyes on Japan/Japan Today Programme Dec 2004, where every year over a total period of 13 years, 4 selected photographers based in the E.U. are invited to document the daily life of Japan. Each being assigned a prefecture('county') to work in. Where in the end the resultant being a document of the whole of Japan, all47 prefectures. This is vol.7

A Land Removed
Rathowen Housing Project for Westmeath County Council
2004


 This work explores a land discarded, abandoned or vacated by migratory shifts of populations and agricultural industries around the village of Rathowen, County Westmeath an area traditionally strong in turf cutting and peat production.

Plantation


A series, taken when Dara was commissioned by Sligo County Council for their current series of public art works, Unravelling Developments 2004-2006. 
This commission was funded by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Per Cent for Art Scheme.

By the Way


The national road plan of a nationwide motorway system is intended to link main areas of populations but is also dramatically changing the topographical landscape of the country forever.
This has induced a certain disorientation and we could be said to be losing our sense of place once so much part of our identity.
This is a photographic documentation undertaken between 2001-2003 of the motorway borderlands and their existing hinterlands of the indelible marks made by the new motorways on the landscape

Europe Between The Lines


A documentary of internal EU Border Checkpoints.
1999 -2002
Desolate boundary outposts mark the European homeland, where travellers were often abruptly detained and inspected. In McGrath's art these become more than political borders
but places of disruption and loneliness, of shadow and repose.