TU Dublin School of Creative Arts Graduate Exhibition 2022
TU Dublin School of Creative Arts is delighted to announce the launch of our 2022 Graduate Exhibition on Thursday, 2 June 2022, at 6pm, with the show open daily from 10am to 5pm from Friday, 3 June to Saturday, 11 June 2022.
This year, we will once again unveil a new generation of artists and designers with a diverse and exciting range of work from our programmes in Fine Art, Interior Design, Product Design, Visual Communication and Visual Merchandising.
The event will mark not only a return of our full in-person exhibition but also our first full-scale public opening of the East Quad, our brand new Art and Design facility in Grangegorman. We will also be joined for the first time in our exhibition by our colleagues from Photography, Film, Music and Drama, in a taste of what is to come as we unveil a new creative arts centre for the North Inner City.
The identity and design of this year's Exhibition, Catalogue and Website were created by Visual Communication students Marwa Noelle Ali, Conor Rice and Aisling Hannon. Their design uses manipulated type to illustrate the progression from individual broken-up pixels, to full letter form, referencing the coming together of the final year cohort in the post-pandemic era. The vibrancy of the fluorescent colour used portrays the spirit of the exhibition and the dynamic nature of the school and the students within it.
Other work from Visual Communication students include Marrow, a photobook by Niamh Byrne documenting young Irish people in their spaces and how they reflect their individuality, while Colin Bergin explores the value of the physical object in an increasingly digital world through the curation and archiving of personal artefacts.
From Fine Art, Venus Patel plays twelve distinct and colourful characters in his film Egg Shell, which delves into the queer collective unconscious with a mix of comedy and playfulness undercut by darker undercurrents in the wake of the personal experience of a homophobic attack experienced on a Dublin street. Fruit Fly by Roksana Parvanova is a photographic exploration of grief and absence involving projected sequences that picture domestic fragments and details shot over a period in Bulgaria.
Interior Designer Alanna Mulcahy has drawn inspiration from Ireland's rich history in whiskey distilling to design the 'Whiskey Hotel', using forms and materials inspired by the colour, fluidity, and containment of the whiskey. Martin Keogh has designed an outward-facing architectural hub that connects with the high street using different proportioned cubes to create dynamic tensions whilst forming interrelated spaces. Furniture Designer Mercedes Lawson Whyte has created public benches for social spaces – one encouraging interaction post-pandemic whilst the other references the solitude of the pandemic.
From Product Design, Daniel Little has developed a smart sea-state monitoring buoy, which provides surfers and emergency services with vital data about water safety in bays, while Kate Hyland has designed an interactive game that compliments the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum in schools by facilitating challenging discussions about emotions.
Our Visual Merchandising students will exhibit work that has been installed in several major retailers, including at Brown Thomas, Ikea, Dunnes Stores, Kilkenny Shop, and Kildare Village. Current international fashion trends such as Euphoric, Resourceful, and Connected feature in the student installations.
The exhibition, taking place in the East Quad in Grangegorman, opens on Thursday, 2 June at 6pm and runs until Saturday, 11 June, opening daily from 10-5pm (including Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday).
For more information, please visit www.dscax.com.