Dublin School of Creative Arts | Memories in Landscape

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

Fine Art

Mohamed Taha
Memories in Landscape

Through landscape paintings, I try to express shared memories with my daughter. I use landscape photos of Kurdistan sent by my daughter who still lives there. We often talk in Kurdish by phone or through Skype. We reminisce about some of the places we visited together in 1994, when she was around five years old. When I was sure I had to leave Kurdistan and might never be able to return back, I visited many places with her in the hope she would still have a connection with her birth place.

I’ve got audio records of her stories for each place, painting and I kept an individual photo for each painting. My paintings show the connection with my daughter in landscape. For the destroyed places by the Iraqi regimes; I try to give a nice picture of such places, in an aim to ‘celebrate and preserve what is remained’.