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

Hugh Kavanagh
An Gheabhróg

The impact of human activity on the environment is devastating and will continue to have disastrous repercussions unless urgent change is made. For most, these effects are far from view, but one bird has a global perspective of this impact as they migrate from pole to pole each year. This book follows the migration of an Arctic tern which was tagged by biologists in Greenland in 2010. The 58,000km route circled the Atlantic Ocean, wintering in Antarctica. Along this journey, human impact on the environment is evident in many places. Contained in the book are a series of extracts from articles and reports which illustrate the vast effect our activity has had on five locations in particular along the tern’s route. A poem by Marcus Mac Conghail, commissioned for this piece, illustrates the story. An accompanying three-screen audiovisual piece brings the publication to motion, showing a nesting site in Dublin in an imagined future devoid of natural life.

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