Dublin School of Creative Arts | Breaking Up Is Never Easy

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

Eva Martin
Breaking Up Is Never Easy

Relationships are hard. They start off with the best intentions. Excitement, attraction, and convenience lure you in. As time goes by some relationships can become toxic, on both sides. But old habits are comfortable and despite the long term implications, you often stay in the relationship. This campaign capitalises on the language of break ups and uses intimate relationships as a metaphor for consumerist culture. It aims to encourage young people to take action by ‘breaking up’ with old habits and ‘move on’ to a more sustainable lifestyle. Breakups are never easy, but sometimes they’re for all the right reasons.

evamartin@outlook.ie Website