Linn Dara

Public art commission for Linn Dara Mental Health Facility for Children and Young People.

Our client, artist and educator Michelle Browne, was commissioned to create an art piece for a residential health unit for children/young adults. Together we designed a game where the player follows the given instructions to reveal messages and artwork as they navigate through the Linn Dara building. For example in the image above the player had to stand in a specific place to allow the dots on the window to line up with the Butterflies on the adjacent building.

Another example is playing with perspective to combine the cards with large type on the walls to reveal messages such as “Obstacles are the portals of discovery.”

Three giant join the dots butterflies painted on an external wall viewed through a window
A window with outside written on it
A card held up in front of the window, that combines to make the phrase
Closeup of an orange card in someones hand. The card says Catterpillars cannot see What they are about to be. Could it be the same is true For the colours inside you? Dare to join the dots and start To feel the wings inside your heart. Look up to the sapphire sky, Can you find the butterfly? Find the dots and numbers somewhere in the building. Move around the space until you can make the dots join up with the picture nearby.
A fluorescent pink cut out of a butterfly with handprints on each wing. The butterfly is fixed to a teal wall. There is a persons hand in the foreground.