Ireland Pavilion, Expo Osaka 2025
To celebrate the deep and long-lasting connections between Japan and Ireland, the Government of Ireland commissioned Joseph Walsh Studio and the Making In Cultural Programme to undertake a creative programme of engagement with Japan through major participation in Expo Osaka 2025.
The Ireland Pavilion, designed by the Office of Public Works Ireland and TSP Taiyo Japan, is based on the triple knot or triskele, an ancient motif which has appeared in Irish art and craft since Neolithic times. The design also looks to the future by using sustainable materials that can be reused after Expo.
For the last number of years Joseph Walsh has developed his monumental outdoor sculptural work. Magnus RINN, the first in the series, was created for the Ireland Pavilion at Expo Osaka. The word RINN has meaning in both Gaelic – a place or meeting point - and Japanese, a circle. Magnus RINN symbolises a moment in time within the circularity of life; the relationship between man and nature throughout the passage of time and nature’s cycles. Transitioning from bronze to oak and finished in a gold gilding, it was created using new material technologies.
Magnus RINN sits in a landscape designed by Hiroyuki Tsujii & Oliver Schurmann.
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