Tom Meskell is a visual artist and community arts practitioner based in the west of Ireland. For over thirty years he has been making large scale lantern sculpture, spectacle arts and community based work with people across Ireland and internationally. His work starts with people — who they are, what they carry, what they might make if someone sat with them and took them seriously as an artist. The finished work, whether that's a single lantern figure or an installation seen by 95,000 people, comes from that.