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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

Caoimhe Byrne

My name is Caoimhe Katie Byrne. I am an Irish female photographic artist from Dublin, Ireland. I am a graduate of the Technological University of Dublin 2022 from my Bachelor’s degree in photography. My field of interest within the industry primarily lay within the genre of fashion photography in relation to my career path and secondarily, other projects I have taken on and shown great interest in would be within the genre of documentary photography.
My most recent project for my graduate show, “Don’t forget to follow me...” is based on night life and the chaos of young people between the ages of 20-25 learning to rebuild their social skills and create new memories again after the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions had been lifted.

Don’t Forget to Follow Me

'Don’t Forget to Follow Me' is the name of my final year major project based on night life after the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions had been lifted. For what seemed like the longest time, we were encouraged to restrict our movements, to avoid socialising and to socially distance, all of which are habitually unnatural to us. People have had to socialise via social media and phone calls with their friends and loved ones.
However, due to the lifting of the restrictions and hopefully having endured the hardest part of this pandemic, young people, particularly, are now at free will to re-join their friends, create new friendships and relationships, rebuild their social skills and self-confidence and create lifelong memories which is what our early twenties should be about. It is to capture the joy and chaos of being able to socialise again having been stripped of these important experiences for young people for a long period of time.