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The Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts is the highlight of the academic year for our students and staff. This online catalogue represents the culmination of many years of full time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work and creative skills in a public arena. The exhibition features work from all our programmes and highlights the exciting and innovative range of work produced by our graduates across Fine Art, Furniture, Product, Interior, Visual Merchandising, Visual Communication Design and Creative and Cultural Industries.

The 2022 exhibition is particularly special as it is the first opportunity we have had to invite the public to our brand new East Quad Arts building and give everyone a chance to see our magnificent new studios and workshops.

The identity and design of this year’s exhibition, catalogue and website was created by Visual Communication students Marwa Noelle Ali, Conor Rice and Aisling Hannon. Their design uses manipulated type to illustrate the progression from individual broken up pixels to full letterforms, to represent the coming together of the final year cohort in the post pandemic era.

Launch June 2, 6pm
Open Daily June 3—11, 10am—5pm
East Quad, TU Dublin, Grangegorman, Dublin 7

Lauren Elizabeth Silver

Lauren Silver is a mixed media artist who works with sculptural and painting practices. Her work centres on ideas of creative destruction, the unseen and roles people play. Silver interacts with the viewer in how she stages her works along with how the works change and reveal what is actually on display. Her work is never as straight forward as it may appear with deeper meaning coming from elements that are not always obvious to the viewer. Feelings of confusion, uncertainty and anxiety play a part in the creation and allows the viewer to empathize with a deeper understanding within the work.

An Dorchadas

An Dorchadas is the collective title for a series of dark coloured sculptures. Each sculpture involves the re-purposing and transformation of salvaged domestic chairs, each unique in form, yet collectively unified through the artists intervention. This intervention diminishes the chairs physical strength and functional properties. Through her intervention the history and possible practical use of the chairs are blurred. The use of colour is important in the works activation as black is paradoxically unambiguous and clarifying, simultaneously revealing and concealing.