Abstract

Some Swansea Sites, a commission as part of Lows International, Art Across the City used 5 billboards dotted across the city to show images of various unlikely landmarks from around Swansea. The sets of images were also published weekly in the Swansea Herald and Post. The piece was also concerned with ways of distributing imagery in the city using existing means. Aisling O’Beirn has created a collection of drawings depicting both familiar and unfamiliar features and elements from around Swansea. Themed on ships, bridges, street furniture, urban weeds and assorted landmarks, O’Beirn has collated the drawings into 5 multi-imaged graphic posters.The posters are exhibited using pre-existing distribution systems, incrementally published as collectable items in the South Wales Evening Post over the duration of the exhibition and publically displayed on billboards at different locations across the maritime district of the city.O’Beirn’s project sees the circulation of vernacular information about Swansea bringing together the familiar and unnoticed aspects of the city.There was a catalogue produced for the exhibition LOCWS INTERNATIONAL 2009 CATALOGUE Art Across the City SwanseaISBN 978-0-955 6395-1-7O' Beirn's work featured on pgs 56 - 61The exhibition was also reviewed by Richard Porch