This Bed

PROJECT: This Bed is an audio-visual installation at 14 Henrietta Street, built around a specially commissioned poem This Bed, This Raft On Stormy Seas by Paula Meehan. Centred on a bed donated to the museum, the piece traces an imaginative journey through the object's history, connecting it to Dr. Bartholomew Mosse, the local visionary who built the world's first purpose-built maternity hospital just around the corner.

CLIENT: 14 Henrietta Street

What they needed

14 Henrietta Street needed an AV experience that could bring Paula Meehan's poem to life within the space. The piece needed to feel immersive and atmospheric, doing justice to both the poem and the history it carries, while sitting naturally within the museum environment.

What we did

We designed and produced the full audio-visual piece for the installation. We filmed mother and baby groups across Dublin city centre and combined that footage with archive photography, ink drop sequences and After Effects work to create a video artwork projected directly onto the bed itself. It was a project that gave us real room to experiment and push our craft, and an genuine privilege to make a piece of work in response to a poet as renowned as Paula Meehan.

A four-poster bed with an ornate dark wood headboard, with a duvet featuring black-and-white images of a child's face and a person's face. The room has light blue walls, dark wooden flooring, and a tapestry hanging on the right wall.
A dark wooden bed with an ornate carved headboard, a white bed sheet, and shadows of leaves cast on the sheet in a dimly lit room.
A bed with a projection of a skeleton and text on the white bedsheet, seen through glass panels.
An elderly woman sitting on a four-poster bed holding a book, with a young woman sitting on the bed in the background. The room has blue walls, wooden flooring, and dark wooden furniture.