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)

Margaret Flynn
Driftwood Art

My work revolves around climate change and its effects on animals and nature through fires, floods, and erosion. I use driftwood which has been eroded by rising sea levels and storms for my project. The driftwood is cleaned and painted with acrylic to highlight the forms that already exist in the wood. Many pieces are small and can be used to create sculptured work which can help an already existing form such as the work titled “showjumping.” Or painted with an array of colours to place in a glass vase to give a colourful display.

peigflynn@gmail.com

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