Roscommon County Council, funded under the Creative Ireland Programme 2024/2025, invites
original submissions from artists on the Roscommon Public Art Artist Panel for the design and
execution of a New Creative Laneway for Alleé De Chartrettes.
This artist commission, the third of its kind for Roscommon town, is part of the Living Laneways
Public Art Programme. The closing for receipt of applications is Monday, November 4 th . Details of
public art instillation in Roscommon are available on
www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/services/community/arts-office/public-art.html.
‘Living Laneways’ is an innovative public art programme where artists respond creatively to the
public laneways of Roscommon Town and to the history, story and community. Existing commissions
are a Poetry Laneway on Chapel Lane, and a Mosaic Laneway on Hynes Way. Local representatives
from various Roscommon groups and schools will be involved in the selection process.
The location of this new ‘Living Laneways’ concept at Alleé De Chartrettes will, it’s expected, greatly
enhance the visual effect of the laneway which was named and marked with a street sign in 2019
honouring the 21st Twinning Anniversary and link between the Irish and French towns as part of the
of Roscommon Chartrettes Town Twinning.
The commission budget of €25,000 proposes a work or works in the form of an installation/relief/mural work installed along the concrete laneway walls. It is an extremely busy access route with high
footfall connecting the large county council car park off Church Street directly to The Square in the
middle of town. At night the laneway is illuminated with lighting installed on its South walls.
The Living Laneways concept was first introduced as part of the Roscommon Town Main Street and
Market Square Public Realm Project funded under the 2018 Urban Regeneration and Development
Fund (URDF) and developed by RCC Regeneration team working with GKMP Architects and artist
Rhona Byrne (who devised the Living Laneways concept).
The full URDF project seeks to create a functionally diverse, connected and people friendly sequence
of town centre spaces which frame and celebrate local architecture, creating a town centre that
existing and future residents can take pride in and which visitors are drawn to.
Back streets and laneways link residents and visitors toward the town centre and the ‘Living
Laneways’ project considers laneways as places traditionally occupied by skills, trades and guilds.
This commissioning programme aims to provide visual enhancement to the laneway links
approaching the Main Street and Market Square.
