Dublin School of Creative Arts

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

Photography

Tamara Gonzalez
Performing Gender

In my work Performing Gender, I explore gender fluidity and drag culture in Dublin. The first of the related projects, is a series of naked portraits produce in the studio. The resulting images explore the sensuality of the body in a kind of gender symbiosis.

The second series includes each drag artist in their performing outfits. These images were produced in the studio and it reflects the performative feminine side of each artist, using props, pads, and outfits to enhance their female figure. The third series explored the transitional environment of the dressing room where gender fluidity is more present than ever, portraying each transitional step that drag artists take before going on stage. It also contains photographs where drag artists were captured under the neon glow of theatre lights. Collectively, the project amounts to a unique insight into the lives of drag artists in Dublin.

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