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

Visual Communication

Conor Maguidhir
Where Love Lived

A campaign that places a spotlight on the lack of solidarity and mutual acceptance in the LGBT community in Dublin today in the context of house music. A timeline was designed, referencing a graphic equaliser, that depicts the solidarity of the 1980s/’90s when the community came together during difficult times. History repeats itself and the same negative behaviour targeted at the community from outside is now happening from within. Rip off part of the timeline, use it as a poster, break the cycle. The secret gay handkerchief-in-back-pocket signal is resurrected with the campaign’s message: “Remember where love lived”, derived from the song ‘Where Love Lives’ by the pioneer of house music, DJ Frankie Knuckles. The vinyl cover and handkerchief are screen printed in glow in the dark ink. The handkerchief can be worn at queer house music events. An animation of the timeline was designed as the campaign’s video.

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