This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Creative & Cultural Industries

Emma Carroll
Punk Style: What happens when an ethos becomes a look?

emmycarroll@hotmail.com

Punk Style: What happens when an ethos becomes a look?

The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine how punk style evolved from its ethos, and what occurs as a result. Essential elements such as individualism, libertarianism, authenticity and rebellion are outlined and linked with the reasons behind people’s desires to be involved with subcultures. North America and Britain are utilised as central examples in this research to provide context for the socio-political conditions under which punk came to fruition. Key stylistic methods of DIY and customisation such as bricolage, agitprop, destruction and the use of hardware are examined in order to link their significance to ideological factors. This work is presented by drawing upon sociological research, along with primary and secondary historical research that indicates the external influences of punk. Findings suggest that there is an assertion of difference found in punk style which implies a hostile relationship with mainstream culture. A new set of sartorial rules is formed as a result. This in turn reveals a conundrum that questions punk’s level of authenticity with regard to stylistic uniformity.