In association with Askeaton Contemporary Arts, this solo exhibition by Adrian Duncan is the culmination of a year-long, Arts Council-supported, artist residency based in Dublin and Askeaton. During this time, Duncan has researched and developed a new series of sculptures, displays and printed matter, each related to the cultural impact of a uniquely Irish housing phenomenon.
Bungalow Bliss by Jack Fitzsimons first appeared in 1971 as a self-published catalogue of affordable house designs. Initially distributed out of a car by Jack and Anne Fitzsimons to newsagents, petrol stations and bookshops, over the course of the next thirty years the Fitzsimons sold over a quarter of a million copies throughout Ireland. It resulted in tens of thousands of new dwellings appearing in Irish towns and surrounding countryside, radically transforming the Irish landscape and housing environment.
