The Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin Schools of Art and Design, Media, Conservatoire and Mechanical Engineering is the highlight of the academic year for our students and staff. This student archive 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 to the public.
John Walsh, Head of School, Art & Design
Dr. Caroline O'Sullivan, Head of School, Media
Dr. Paul McNulty, Head of School, Conservatoire
Dr. Charlie Cullen, Head of School, Mechanical Engineering
This is GradX
The identity of this year’s exhibition, catalogue and website was designed by Visual Communication students Cristina Alegria Llorente, Elli Branigan, Hannah Corble and Justina Kankuwata.
The visual identity is conceptually built around the idea of a palimpsest. A palimpsest is defined as a parchment or other writing surface on which the original text has been effaced and then overwritten by another. Palimpsests, in more recent times, have been described as a ‘layered record’
To fully view a palimpsest, the hidden layers must be illuminated through a multi-spectral imaging process, which uses wavelengths of light ranging from infrared to ultraviolet to reveal their traces on the page. Images of these scans are captured and composited to create a new image, in which all layers become visible. The aim of GradX 2026 is to illuminate and reveal the unseen layers of the shared student experience of graduating students.
