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

Jake Skelly
Into The Light

Into the light is an illuminated poetry book. The book borrows the conventions of illuminated manuscripts and marries them with conventional book layout to create a completely new form of a poetry book. The marrying of type and illustration is a metaphor for the change Dante undergoes over the course of Paradiso, Canto 33. Dante begins by begging Mary for the ability to look into the light above. She grants his wish, however, the light is too complex for Dante to comprehend. Finally, God grants him the ability to remember and recount what he has witnessed as he is shown the universe bound together into one by love. The physical book takes the place of the universe. Over the course of the book the illustrated margins and body text become bound into one, mirroring Dante’s relationship with, and understanding of, the light.

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