Welcome to the Neighbourhood – A Point in Time Exhibition hosted by CHI Arts in Health Programme

Since November 2024, photographic artist Liadh Connolly has been engaging three groups of transition year students in Dublin 12 in a project called Welcome to the Neighbourhood.

The young people are making a photographic body of work that will form the inaugural exhibition of the new children’s hospital once it opens. The exhibition aims to introduce future patients, families and staff to the environs of the hospital as seen through the eyes of young people.

The work-in-progress from this project will be presented in a one-day exhibition on 23 May in the studio spaces of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

An initiative of the CHI Arts in Health Programme, the project is made possible by the BAM Community Engagement fund for the new hospital and the Children’s Health Foundation.