'Carry Each Other, Iompair a Chéile'
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
BELFAST
Commissioned by Belfast City Council, a Special EU Programmes Body project
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
BELFAST
Commissioned by Belfast City Council, a Special EU Programmes Body project
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'Carry Each Other'
6 sculptures, 1 video on the 5 Greenway Stages, in corten steel and aluminium, a sustainably driven sculpture. A project of interconnectivity communicating in real and digital time; videography by @jacobCunninghamBell 
The collective ideas gathered from public engagement are embedded, appliquéd, and actioned into the sculpture form by Sara whilst sculpting from her studio on the North Coast, Northern Ireland
"Thank you to all incredible participants from each section of the Greenway, over 260 amazing people involved. The main core of people in the video credits. I did withdraw to my studio to sculpt the final sculptures ! "
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BELFAST Forth Meadows Community Greenway Public Sculpture Project, 2023. 5 Greenway Stages, 12 Km long, each section with a sculpture by sculptor Sara Cunningham-Bell : Glencairn, Springfield, Falls Park, Bog Meadows, City Centre; and Springfield Road with the iconic 7 metre sculpture - installing soon 'Carry Each Other', a sustainable, green approach sculpture, is sculpted by Sara at her studio and the foundry; its concept is delivered through participatory research with public engagement alongside incredible, generous local groups: Bog Meadows Ulster Wildlife, Sure Start Early Years, Clan Mór, FMCG Walkers Glencairn and Falls, St. Peter’s Cathedral, St. Matthews Parish, Harmony Primary; Forth River Primary; Mercy Primary; Springfield Primary; St. Clare’s Primary; St. Kevin’s Primary; St. Paul’s Primary, Bunscoil An tSleibhe Dhuibh The Sculpture Commission: The Forth Meadow Community Greenway project is being delivered by Belfast City Council, with funding provided by the EU’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), the Department for Communities and the Department for Infrastructure. The Executive Office in Northern Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development in Ireland have provided support for the PEACE IV element of the project. 
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