Exhibitions
Exhibitions by Students and Staff at TU Dublin School of Art and Design.
We are delighted to welcome you to GradX, the Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin School of Art and Design, School of Media and the TU Dublin Conservatoire.
Launch night: Thursday, 29th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Opens daily: 30th May – 5th June, 10:00am – 5:00pm (closed Sunday, but will re-open bank holiday Monday)
Location: The East Quad building, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, D07 XFF2.
This is the fourth year that we host our exhibition at the East Quad, the creative and cultural hub in the heart of TU Dublin’s Grangegorman Campus, that is home to our state-of-the-art new studios, workshops and practice and performance spaces.
The exhibition is the highlight of the academic year for students and staff, and features an exciting, innovative range of work from over 200 degree students from our programmes in Fine Art, Product Design (in partnership with the School of Mechanical Engineering), Interior and Furniture Design, Visual Merchandising, Visual Communication Design, Creative Industries and Visual Culture, Film and Broadcasting, Game Design, Photography, and Journalism. This year, we are also joined by the TU Dublin Conservatoire who will host a number of performances from graduates in Music, as well as screenings representing Drama and Opera.
The work presented in this exhibition, print publication and on our GradX website represents the culmination of many years of full-time study, and affords our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imaginations, hard work and significant creative skills.
The first year Fine Art students from the School of Art and Design, TU Dublin, would like to invite you to SPREE, an open studio event to mark the end of their first year of study.
Location: EQ 502, East Quad, Grangegorman
Date: Wednesday, 7th May 2025 5pm - 8pm
The students from Fine Art year 2 would like to invite you to Wasteland. This is an open studio event to mark the end of year 2 of their studies.
Location: East Quad, 5th Floor studio
Date: Wednesday, 7th May 5pm – 8pm
Thursday 10th April 2025
3.00 pm – Live Event on The Golden Bandstand Sculpture.
5.00 – 7.00 pm - Exhibition opening at East Quad Atrium & EQ 503 studio.
Amalgam 18’ is a culmination of artistic work created this semester by eighteen students from third year BA Fine Art TU Dublin spanning three spaces, involving a live event at The Golden Bandstand Sculpture and exhibitions at the East Quad.
Amalgam 18’ is the first ever live artistic event at the recently completed Golden Bandstand Sculpture and involves live interactive fabric installations, tarot readings, an AI generated blessing, mobile paintings, musical interludes and performances. Following this, the exhibition opens at East Quad atrium and EQ 503 studio showing drawings, paintings, video, and sculpture where each artist addresses their own themes and concerns.
As a collective, the artists have experimented with different mediums and methodologies this year, escaping their comfort zones and pushing beyond the boundaries of the studio. Students have worked together to actively self-organise all aspects of Amalgam 18’.
Amalgm 18’ are Niamh Cahill, Clive Casey, Kate Clancy, Tansy Clarke, Sean Connelly, Daniela Jevdokimova, Kenneth Kelly, Corina Lin, Evan Lynam, Sinead Maher, Niamh McKittrick, Sara-Jane Mooney, Rachel O’Connor, Marta Ortiz Gonzalez, Manuela Pita Vidal, Jools Reilly, Rebekah Reilly, Jane Singleton.
The Trims and Detail 2026 WGSN Brief was a unique and multi-layered project. It involved customising, embellishing, and adorning a piece that could be added to clothing as part of an outfit. The piece had to be removable and should not damage the clothing, making it a challenging yet innovative task.
Students were required to meet six criteria:
- Research and analysis of the WGSN trims and details report for 2026
- Sketch, design, and prototype three ideas
- Create a 3D removable design piece
- Conduct a photoshoot
- Create a poster with all the above using InDesign and Adobe Photoshop
- Participate in a group exhibition of the trims & detailed styled designs.
Students, staff on TU795 extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the models, friends, family members, and students who volunteered their time and effort. We also want to thank Ronan Callahan a 4th-year photographer, for his stellar work with the students. Well done, year two students, who gave this brief their all.
In this project, First Year Product Design students explored shape, form, and proportion by designing and making a pendant lamp solely utilising white paper and card. The goal was to create a volume around the light source as a secondary material without embellishment or use of colour. Students undertook an iterative process in response to the brief, exploring ways in which light could be diffused using paper construction techniques learned in the first semester. The completed lamp was then photographed in the photography studio and presented alongside A3 posters in a studio exhibition.
4th year Visual Communication students are currently working on the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) briefs which Brenda Dermody, Peter Maybury, and Louise Reddy co-supervise. The students produce varied outputs for this, some focussing on the digital, spatial or exhibitionary, but for many there is a significant print component. Peter brought in some of his accumulated printed matter and set it out on the floor in the back atrium of the East Quad building. The morning was spent pouring over this and talking about it with various student groups. Arranging the material in this configuration, large to small, makes you think about the flat landscape of paper, and the inert, closed book, that fold and unfold as poetic, dynamic, sculptural forms when people interact with and operate them. This spatiotemporal encounter then has implications for all media.
The MA in Graphic Design Practice combines contemporary education practices, meaningful industry links and excellent facilities to deliver this unique course. It combines research, practical studio work and the development of relevant technology and entrepreneurial skills to equip graduates as design professionals.
The research module provides participants with the opportunity to conduct research on a chosen topic that is important to them and has professional relevance in a graphic design context. Throughout the research process students are asked to develop a visual representation of their research as a tool of substantive and subject specific knowledge. Visit the East Quad building this week to see these five unique visual representations by our 2022/23 cohort.
You can download the MA Graphic Design Practice 2023 Catalogue here.
We are delighted to invite you to celebrate the Creative Arts Masters Platform Grad Show 2022, open each day from 11 am to 6 pm, Monday 19th to Friday.
Venue
The exhibition will take place in the temporary exhibition venue of the derelict church of Ireland church — https://goo.gl/maps/e7przPG8nyrxU9Wn7
Culture Night | 5-7 pm | 23rd September
The exhibition will close with a special Culture Night event from 5 pm-7 pm on Friday 23rd. We will host a mixture of exhibition tours, talks and a panel discussion.
We do hope you can join us.
For queries, please email CreativeArts@TUDublin.ie
We are excited to welcome you back to the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts Graduate Exhibition 2022.
The Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts is the highlight of the academic year for our students and staff. This online catalogue will represent the culmination of many years of full time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work and creative skills in a public arena. The exhibition will feature work from all our programmes and highlights the exciting and innovative range of work produced by our graduates across Fine Art, Furniture, Product, Interior, Visual Merchandising and Visual Communication Design.
The 2022 exhibition is particularly special as it is the first opportunity we have had to invite the public to our brand new East Quad Arts building and give everyone a chance to see our magnificent new studios and workshops.
Join us!
- Launch June 2, 6pm
- Open Daily June 3—11, 10am—5pm
- East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, Dublin 7
For more information visit: https://dscax.com/
21st Nov - 26th January
This exhibition is the final in the third series of Futures, a sequence of exhibitions that endeavours to document and contextualise the work of early career artists and emergent practices, around who exists a growing critical and curatorial consensus.
The artists in Futures, Series 3, Episode 3 are selected from various artist-led initiatives, group shows and over a series of studio visits undertaken in the last 12 months by Patrick T. Murphy, RHA Director and Ruth Carroll, Curator.
The artists chosen for this year’s Futures exhibition are Anishta Chooramun, Jane Fogarty, Celina Muldoon, Sven Sandberg, Mary Sullivan and Harry Walsh Foreman.
For more on Mary Sullivan's work check out the feature article EMERGING LIGHT by TU Dublin School of Creative Arts Lecuter Glenn Loughran in this months Irish Arts Review
TU Dublin School of Creative Arts Lecturer in Fine Art, Mark Garry, will present a significant exhibition of his work at The MAC, Belfast.
Opening on 30th of January, this exhibition, across all three of the MAC’s galleries, will represent the most significant presentation of Garry’s work to date and has been developed specifically for the MAC over the last two and a half years.
The work comprises of an series of films, installations and individual works exploring interrelates subjects of landscape and music/sound, looking at each element from historical, social and cultural perspectives and amplifying points where these elements continue or intersect.
Formore information visit https://themaclive.com/exhibition/mark-garry-songs-and-the-soil
Dates: 30 Jan 2020 - 19 Apr 2020
Time: 11am - 5pm, 7 days a week
Price: Free Admission
The MAC,
10 Exchange Street West
Belfast, BT12NJ
