The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
In an era that conjures up Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, Campbell worked in diving bells and heavy, spacesuit-like diving gear.
In this new book, animal exploitation is used as a lens to reflect the changing social, cultural and ideological fabric of the city of Dublin as it moved towards a new model of urban civilisation in the nineteenth century.