The commissioning of six sculptures for Dublin city costing a total of €600,000 has been launched.
Artists will be asked to submit designs for works "in response to the specific context of the selected site" according to the city council.
There will be a permanent structure in each of the city council's five administrative areas and a temporary piece on an empty plinth outside city hall where a statue of Daniel O'Connell once stood.
The permanent structures will be in Smithfield, Raheny, Finglas, Ballyfermot and Terenure.
A special initiative called Sculpture Dublin will be run over the next 18 months to raise awareness about sculpture according to programme director Karen Downey.
She said there will be public meetings, workshops and online surveys in each of the areas to get public views on the installations.
One at St Anne's Park in Raheny will be Dublin's first permanent piece of 'land art'.
City Arts officer Ray Yeates said the council will have to look at the accessibility of artworks given the vandalism of the Luke Kelly statue and the Tree of Life sculpture in Clontarf.
It is hoped to have the first of the new sculptures ready in time for the opening of the People's Park in Ballyfermot next May.
This will be followed by the city hall piece in June; in Smithfield in July; Bushy Park Terenure in August; St Anne's Park, Raheny in September and in Kildonan Park, Finglas by the end of 2021.
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Details of the six commissions are available on its new website www.sculpturedublin.ie.
