“On The Street” is a work by artist Sinéad Curran, addressing the tensions between possibility and non action, arising for the current economic climate. It portrays a group of children queueing on a street in Clondalkin, West Dublin. The children are waiting outside the local social welfare building. As we see more adults queueing we are left with an uncertainty for the future of our children.

Artist Sinead Curran asked young people from Tallaght Young Filmmakers and from a CPLN-based film group in Clondalkin to participate in the film piece for display in Latent Connections, an exhibition of work by three artists, Sinéad Curran, Elaine Hurley and Suzannah Vaughan, at Pallas Contemporary Projects in Dublin City Centre. The work shown addresses the tensions between possibility and non action, presented by means of light, video and temporary fragile structures.

Sinéad Curran wishes to thank the following young people from the schools in Clondalkin and the Tallaght Young Filmmakers for their help and participation in the making of this video.  Thanks to Daniel Donegan, Martin Casey, Dylan Brogan, Wayne Brennan, Jonathan Byrne, Daniel Davitt, Marcus Rotherford, Aoibhín Noone, Shane Byrne, Shauna Clarke, Eoghan McEntee, Adam O’Reilly, Shannon Brett, Lauren McCabe, Jason Rogers. Also a special thanks to Victoria Durrer from South Dublin County Council, Miriam McNamee from CPLN and Caroline Halpin.

Sinéad Curran is an artist and student on the MA in Visual Arts Practices, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. She completed a BA Hons in Visual Arts Practices at IADT, a BA in Fine Art at Crawford College of Art, Cork and a BA in Computing at WIT. She has received numerous awards, including South Dublin County Council Bursary and Ealaín Na Gaeltachta bursary. Her work has been exhibited at Broadstone XL, TBGS 6, The Concourse, Dun Laoghaire, Greyfriars Gallery, Waterford and more recently at SC Gallery, Zagreb as part of Test!9+10. Sinéad’s practice engages social concerns yet takes as its basis, questions of idealism in relation to community.