Dublin School of Creative Arts | Do You See What I Mean?

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

Visual Art (Sherkin Island)

Katie Nolan
Do You See What I Mean?

While working with a group of blind and sighted women I became interested in the group dynamic as they worked alongside each other learning how to weave. Their conversations revealed a variety of perceptions regarding contrast, color - v - texture, and how memory functioned in their automaticity when performing tactile repetitive tasks. The final work interrogates the physical and cognitive skill acquired through disciplined perception, the modern-day regression of our haptic sensitivity and so, considers the human hand as technology.

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