Events
Events by students and staff of the TU Dublin School of Art and Design.
The third year Fine Art students from the School of Art and Design, TU Dublin, would like to invite you to RUNDGANG, an open studio event of current work in progress.
Date: Thursday 11th December 2025, 5pm - 7pm.
Location: EQ 503, East Quad, Grangegorman
TU Dublin School of Art & Design is delighted to host the Basic Talks programme in cooperation with Hugh Lane Gallery and Basic Space for the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026.
Join us for the next Basic Talk with: Christopher Steenson
Friday 5 December 2025, 1.15pm – 2.15pm
Room EQ-203, TU Dublin, East Quad Grangegorman Campus, D07 XFF2
The talk is free, but spaces are limited. Please book your place here or come on the day subject to availability. This talk is presented as part of our HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.
Christopher Steenson
Following time as a researcher and PhD candidate in psychology and movement science, Christopher Steenson began his artistic practice in 2017. Since then, his work has been presented by The MAC, Belfast (2024); Freelands Foundation, London (2024); LAVA, Mexico City (2024); Flat Time House, London, United Kingdom (2023); VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art (2022); TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them (2022), curated by Clare Gormley; Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2022); Project DivFuse, London, United Kingdom (2022); Sonorities sound biennale (2022); CCA Derry~Londonderry (2021), curated by Locky Morris and Catherine Hemelryk; Radiophrenia (2020).
Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.
Image credit: Photograph by Simon Mills, courtesy the artist
As part of Irish Design Week 2025, TU Dublin and Merenda present a panel discussion and exhibition of completed works and works in progress, celebrating collaboration between students, educators, and industry.
This exhibition will take place Nov 17th - 21st 2025 in TU Dublin School of Art and Design, East Quad, Grangegorman (D07 XFF2)
A Panel Discussion will take place on Thursday, Nov 20th, 6pm-8pm in room EQ-116. (Book your place through Eventbrite here)
In response to this year’s theme, “The ties that tie, and the links that link”, TU Dublin Interior & Furniture Design students were challenged with a real-world brief: to design seating or accessories for a new Dublin café called Link. The project asked students to integrate sustainability, functionality, and storytelling into their prototypes, while drawing inspiration from the café’s name as a symbol of connection.
To support this process, students worked with ALPI veneer, a sustainable material developed with international designers that bridges tradition and innovation, craft and technology, and local practice with global design. As both a surface and a symbol, the veneer offered an ideal medium for exploring how material-driven design can foster connections across disciplines, generations, and cultures.
We are happy to announce that the Year Three Visual Merchandising Display students at Technological University Dublin are bringing back the pop-up preloved apparel shop. The students have worked hard, using their placement experience and classroom learning to prepare for this event. Their editorial styling work is especially impressive, and we believe this event will be something special. The students are ready to transform the East Quad with a unique experience. Get ready for “tud.threads.”
Threads is a pop-up inspired by the art of fashion, focusing on craftsmanship, sustainability, and layering. Final-year Visual Merchandising students created this event to offer an immersive space where you can buy second-hand clothes and see fashion as an art form. Threads will include activities, second-hand clothing, DJs, and more, all in the heart of TU Dublin's creative area. Money raised from the event will help fund the students’ end-of-year graduation show.
Save the dates: the pop-up shop will be open on 11th, 12th, and 13th November at the East Quad, School of Art and Design, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, D07 XFF2, on the ground floor.
The students have also partnered with Focus Ireland (@focusirelandcharity) and will donate 10% of their profits to the charity.
HLG OFFSITE: BASIC TALKS – KIAN BENSON BAILES
Friday 7th November 2025, 1.15pm – 2pm
TU Dublin School of Art and Design, East Quad, Room: EQ 203
BA Fine Art, TU Dublin School of Art and Design are delighted to host Basic Talks programme in cooperation with Basic Space and Hugh Lane Gallery for months of November, December 2025 and January 2026.
The first talk by Kian Benson Bailes is taking place during Dublin Gallery Weekend as part of the Hugh Lane gallery Explore & Learn Off Site programme.
Kian Benson Bailes is an Irish artist from the northwest of Ireland and currently based in Dublin. His multifaceted practice explores rural Ireland, visual language and identity. Recent exhibitions include ‘Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin (21 Angels and Then Some…)’at Mermaid Arts Centre 2025, and ‘Staying with The Trouble’ at IMMA 2025.
Free, book your place here or come on the day subject to availability.
Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.
TU Dublin School of Art and Design is located in the East Quad building, Grangegorman campus, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).
IRELAND INVITES seeks to enhance international exposure for Irish visual artists by hosting biennale curators to undertake visits to studio and art institutions in Ireland. During their visit curators will have the opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary art practices in Ireland availing of the curatorial expertise of IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery and Culture Ireland, who will facilitate research and create bespoke hosted trips for each visiting curator.
Friday 24 October 2025, 1.15pm: Talk by Erzen Shkololli, artist and curator
Location: TU Dublin School of Art and Design, East Quad, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).
Erzen Shkololli is the curator of the 5th edition of Autostrada Biennale, to be held from July to October 2025 in Prizren, Kosovo, and currently serves as curator-at-large at Cukrarna (Ljubljana). Shkololli has successfully led several art institutions, including Albania’s National Gallery of Art (2018–2022) and Kosovo’s National Gallery of Art (2011–2015). Under his leadership, both institutions underwent significant transformations.
In addition to his institutional roles, Shkololli has served as the commissioner of Kosovo’s inaugural pavilion in the Venice Biennale (2013) and has independently curated international exhibitions, including Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation (2018), a collaborative project between the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, and Kontakt Collection, Vienna; We Live Upon a Star (2016), the second edition of the Hannah Ryggen Triennial, showcased in Ørland and the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim; The World Won’t Listen (2007) at the Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik; History Started Playing with My Life (2007) at Digital Art Lab (DAL), Holon, Israel; and Reappearance (2004) at the Kosovo Museum, Prishtina.
Shkololli served as a curatorial advisor of documenta 14. He was awarded the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellowship (2008/2009) and the Premio Michetti by Fondazione Michetti (2001). In 2003, he cofounded EXIT Contemporary Art Institute in Peja, Kosovo. Shkololli’s artwork has been exhibited in museums such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, and MUMOK, Vienna.
This talk is presented as part of our HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes.
For further information see: https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/ireland-invites-erzen-shkololli/
The School of Art and Design Transition year programme 2025-26 is now full, and unfortunately we cannot accept any more applications. There was enormous interest in our programme and places filled up very quickly. We are sorry to disappoint you.
If you are interested in future study in the School of Art and Design we would welcome you to visit us on any of the TU Dublin Open Days. Open Days are a great opportunity to learn more about our programmes, see our facilities and meet with staff & students. TYs are always welcome to these events.
For further information please contact the School Administrator at email: school.artanddesign@tudublin.ie
Landscapes of Resistance + Q&A With Marta Popivoda and Barbara Knežević
Serbo-Croatian | Serbia, France, Germany | 96mins | 2021 | Cert: CLUB | Dir: Marta Popivoda
This screening is part of the programme for Gvozdene Kapije (The Iron Gates). Tickets are free and can be reserved here: Solstice Arts Centre | Landscapes of Resistance + Q&A
The Solstice Gallery will open one hour ahead of the screening for all looking to explore the exhibition, Gvozdene Kapije/The Iron Gates.
This screening includes a Q&A with exhibiting artist Barbara Knežević and the film's director Marta Popivoda.
It’s like wondering whether the grass, the crickets,
or the pond are only a backdrop of events,
or whether they are participants of events,
with their shadows, depths, sounds,
waiting to become the narrators?
Landscapes of Resistance traces a journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja (97), one of the first Partisan women in Yugoslavia, who was also among the leaders of the Resistance movement at Auschwitz. We make her story travel through time toward the bodies of a new generation of antifascists, suggesting that it is always possible to think and practice resistance.
TU Dublin School of Art & Design is delighted to host a screening of 'We Will Not Sit Down and Be Quiet', a film produced by DoubleTAKE Studio, Tallaght Community Arts featuring a group of self-advocates with intellectual disabilities and their work to ensure a better level service for themselves and their peers. The film serves as a call to action and invites us to examine our own unconscious bias towards those who live with a disability and those who require supports to thrive.
The opening screening will take place on Tuesday, 11th of March at 6pm in the East Quad, Grangegorman, with an accompanying exhibition of artwork and advocacy posters produced by the advocates which will run until Friday, 14th of March in the East Quad Rear Foyer.
Please RSVP to school.artanddesign@tudublin.ie
TU Dublin School of Art and Design Careers Day
HEAR FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS
March 26th / 15:00 - 17:00 - East Quad 002
Schedule
15:00 INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW OF THE EVENT
15:15 THE JOYS & CHALLENGES OF SELF EMPLOYMENT
15:30 TOP TIPS FOR SECURING EMPLOYMENT IN THE SECTOR
15:45 INTRODUCTION TO THE INSTITUTE OF DESIGNERS IN IRELAND
16:00 FROM COLLEGE TO CAREER: DESIGNING YOUR FUTURE (FAST!)
16:15 STUDIO LIFE - DESIGNING IN THE REAL WORLD
16:30 BRIDGING THE GAP - THREEX3 INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
16:45 MAKING THE JUMP: NAVIGATING THE FIRST HURDLES AS A DESIGN GRADUATE
17:00 THANKS - TEA/COFFEE & CAKES IN EQ FRONT FOYER
Speakers
Dave Kilmartin - Senior Manager, Student Success (TU Dublin)
Alice Fitzgerald - Artist/Designer & Educator
Brian Heffernan - Director, Communication and Connection (Studio AAD)
Paul Finnegan - Director & Head of Interiors (MOLA)
Susan Carberry - Creative Director (Red Dog Design)
Jennifer Henderson - Member Services Executive (Institute of Designers in Ireland)
Colin Farmer - Director (Unthink)
Ciáran Connolly Designer (Red & Grey)
Barry Sheehan - Head of Design (TU Dublin School of Art and Design)
Opening night: Thursday, 30th May, 6:00 – 10:00pm
Opens daily: 31st May – 8th June, 10:00am – 5:00pm (Closed: Sunday 2nd June and will re-Open: Bank Holiday Monday 3rd June)
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. Full details can be found at www.gradx.ie
This is the third 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 TU Dublin School of Art and Design will host the fourth annual Fontstand International Typography Conference on the 8th and 9th of September 2023.
The event includes a series of practical workshops focused on type design, scripting, type usage and a rich program of talks and presentations about various aspects of typography in print, motion design, and branding.
Speakers include Jon Barnbrook, Annie Atkins, Liza Enebeis, Max Phillips and TU Dublin's Clare Bell and Mary Ann Bolger.
For further information and tickets see https://fontstand.com/conference/
The Open Day to the TU Dublin School of Art and Design will take place in the Grangegorman campus on Saturday, 22nd April between 10am and 12.30pm. 
Presented in partnership with IMMA and The Project Arts Centre, the TU Dublin School of Art and Design is hosting a one day programme featuring talks, film, and discussion with international collectives and participants, exploring endangered film, video archives & imagined futures.
Tapes Under the Bed is a curated selection of screenings and talks that draws from current research and practical concerns about the material legacies of various art and film collectives from the 1980s in the UK and Ireland, each of whom worked from anti-imperialist, anti-racist, queer and/or feminist positions. The materials that remain include video tapes, recordings, posters, documents and other ephemera and may not yet have found an appropriate archive or collection for their preservation however are now increasingly part of contemporary discourse. We ask how we can work effectively, sustainably, appropriately and ethically with material that has been stored by artists or others over the years in private attics, drawers, or under the bed.
Contributions include:
Derry Film and Video Workshop: Response by Margo Harkin
Cinenova Feminist Film and Video & Sheffield Feminist Film Co-op: Response by Ash Reid
Mayday Rooms: Response by Rosemary Grennan
Poster Collective: Contribution by Christine Halsall
AIDS Video Activism: Response by Ed Webb-Ingall.
Retake: Response by Aditi Jaganathan and Suman Bhuchar.
Channel Four Workshops: Response by Rod Stoneman
Book tickets here.
TU Dublin School of Art and Design Visual Merchandising and Display students present Urban Studio.
This annual pop-up thrift shop is open to the public and will run from 23rd-25th of November 2022 in the foyer of the East Quad building on the Grangegorman Campus.
You can follow Urban Studio on instagram.
The TU Dublin School of Art and Design open day is taking place on Saturday, 12th November from 10am to 2pm.
Studio locations for programme presentations/demonstrations are as follows-
EQ212 – Interior Design
EQ402 – Visual Merchandising
EQ405 – Creative Industries and Visual Culture
EQ406 – Visual Communication
EQ502 – Fine Art
A School stand will also be set up on the ground floor.
Portfolio submissions will be online and will close at 5pm on Monday, 27th February 2023. Further details regarding portfolio submissions can be found at https://www.tudublin.ie/study/undergraduate/cao/entry-requirements/portfolio-submission/
The TUDublin School of Art and Design, will once again, host the 2022 IDI Graduate Design Awards.
The awards night will take place on Thursday 20th October.
The school has a number of graduates shortlisted at this year's awards, click here to see their details.
For further information of the awards night see the Institute of Designers in Ireland.
Cinema premières of Peter Maybury’s film On being there.
Pálás Cinema, Galway; Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
On being there is a filmic encounter with the material and outputs of the office of Tom dePaor. The earliest project represented here is from 1991, and the film spans 30 years to include a project at Dysart, Co. Wicklow.
There is the place itself. There are notebooks, drawings, prints, scale models, 35mm slides, photographs, films, files, books, writing. A diversity of materials and media, evidencing significant technological changes in production and reproduction. This is the raw material.
The film is a rerecording, or sampling of this material, where scale, media, and modes of presentation and realisation merge. The linear transition from drawing to model to built landscape and documentation is disrupted. The film explores the permeability of the image. Animated or activated through movement and operation, everything can be superimposed, overlaid, or cut into. An audio-visual encounter with place, within the space of the screen and the loudspeaker.
On being there was originally made for the Tom dePaor exhibition i see Earth: Building and Ground 1991–2021 at VISUAL Carlow, 2022. It will be screening in Pálás Cinema, Galway, Thursday 6 October, as part of the Architecture at the Edge Festival, and in the Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin, Thursday 13 October as part of Open House Dublin 2022
More information here: https://architecturefoundation.ie/event/on-being-there/
BA Visual Merchandising & Display Year 3 Studi0y2k Pop--up-shop launched 25/11/021 in EQ403 by Iain Kimmins and Barbara Chapman of the British Display Society. Open until Friday 26/11/21.
FAST 45, a pan European research project TU Dublin partners in, will present a lecture on the future of digitalisation in education with Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, senior analyst with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in conversation with Orla McDonagh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Friday 23 September 11.30- 1.00, online
Registration at
https://elia-artschools.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?id=1672709
In 2021, in the wake of Covid-19 global school shutdowns and an unprecedented shift to online teaching, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), released their Digital Education Outlook, a major policy document that examined the potential for the emerging digital technologies of AI, blockchain, robots to transform education in the same way they are transforming society.
Digitalisation opens up new possibilities for education. While education has always been rich in data such as grades or administrative information on students’ absenteeism, the use of data to help students learn better and teachers to teach better, and to inform decision-making in educational administrations is recent. Education stakeholders have had a difficult relationship with technology, alternating between strong enthusiasm and scepticism. Might digital technology, and, notably, smart, technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), learning analytics, robotics, and others, transform education in the same way they are transforming the rest of society? If so, how might this look?
FAST 45 is pleased to present Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, editor of the report and senior analyst leading OECD work on digitalization in education, who will explore this question through an overview of the opportunities and challenges of smart technologies in the classroom and at organisational level and outline some policy pointers for the successful deployment of smart technologies in education.
After his talk, Dr Vincent-Lancrin will be joined in conversation with Dr. Orla McDonagh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities TU Dublin.
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