Student Cohort
Bernardine Carroll
Bernardine Carroll is a multi-disciplinary artist using ephemeral activities to explore wandering themes. Her latest project investigates how birds have become such potent poetic and political metaphors to the extent that all of humanity's ebb and flow, it's frailty and indignity might possibly be read in our avian counterparts. This project is documented on her blog
Beverley Cleland
Beverley Cleland is an artist who enjoys the challenge of experimentation. She merges different disciplines to create innovative, fresh and spontaneous outcomes.
Cleland deftly captures gestures, glances and subtle movements of the human form, through rigorous drawing techniques. suggesting mood and emotion of the figure. Choosing to work within a textiles discipline has meant the need to embrace the extensive history textiles has within the realm of domesticity. Not only does Cleland acknowledge her discipline’s history, she uses it as a catalyst when observing the female nude in relation to masculinity and femininity within today’s society.
Sinead Conlon
Sinead Conlon is an artist who's work centres on exploring the collaborative possibilities of altering the urban landscape. Her interest in habitable structures and imaginary spaces, are realised through surrealist aesthetics when pieces get located in the real. She looks for a potential democratic approach to her work, offering participation in the process of her interventions.
Eva Hanausek
Originally from Germany, Hanausek is an experienced Graphic Designer. She moved to Ireland in 2005 and worked with clients in both Ireland and Germany. She is passionate about design in general, and, graphic design in particular. Her professional design work focused mainly in the print sector, particularly the development of corporate identities.
She commenced an MA in Multi-disciplinary Design in 2008. Having researched the area of wordless communication, she has begun to develop user-friendly graphical solutions that could be used as educational tools. Her project will be rounded out with a web presence.
Marie Kilcline
Marie Kilcline is a talented illustrator and textile product designer. Her practice explores aspects of culture and questions identity. Kilcline applies her social observations through digital and traditional methods to clothing and accessories. Her current work focuses on reclaiming discarded textiles and reconstructing them to produce wearable art-pieces. The resulting items wittily embody social commentary and merge the worlds of art and fashion.
Samantha McGahon
As a Fine Art Painter Samantha McGahon's working practice is rooted in photography and digital image manipulation, representing the landscapes of Carlingford and the surrounding coastal areas. Investigating surface design these images have been transferred to rugs and cushions. The juxtaposition of photography, digital media and textile art encouraged me to apply for the MA in Multi Disciplinary Design.
Liam J Moore
Having spent four years studying programming, Liam Moore entered the world of graphic and web design where his Masters is spent studying branding and the themes of advertising and marketing. There is an emphasis on ethics and morals in his practice and Liam would say he has an “honest, up-front approach” to design.
Liam is currently launching self-initiated campaigns and spreading awareness of various subject matter as part of his on-going research.
Gillian Patterson
Gillian Patterson’s background is in textile art with her current work focusing on creating wearable pieces of jewellery. By considering the female form she pushes the boundaries between jewellery, fashion and sculpture. Through her continued use of alternative materials combined with various textile processes, Gillian is creating a collection of jewellery pieces, which reflect upon Elizabethan Costume and Body Armour.
Gary Quinn
Gary Quinn is a forward thinking designer who develops ideas under the pseudonym of Greasy Fringe. Here he uses his skills to develop themes that challenge our perception of society and the world itself. By using his background qualifications as a web designer, Gary will amplify design that works on two levels, visual and mental.
For more information please visit www.greasyfringe.com
Jan Uprichard
Jan Uprichard's work is an exploration into the connection between the olfactory and memory. Investigation is being made into these connections in several ways, through an ongoing process of collecting peoples subjective memories in relation to smell, and of smells themselves.
Alumni
MA Art in Public
Chrissie Cadman
Chrissie Cadman’s practice lies in performance art. Her interests are the various concepts of what and how dialogues are negotiated in private/public space. Using this creative ephemeral art form and the physicality of the self, her work explores the complexity of living and its potential to change.
Christoff Gillen
The central features Gillen addresses with his performance/installation artworks are the adumbrate personal, political, religious and social conditions which challenge stereotypes existing both in a micro and macro environment.
Eleanor Phillips
Eleanor Phillips is a visual artist working mainly in video and photography through a dialogical practice. She looks for democracy through engagement with others and hopes to discover ways of re-claiming self-representation and understanding humanity. Utopia, anybody?
Fiona Whelan
Fiona Whelan is a visual artist with a long term contextual practice in Rialto, Dublin 8, working in collaboration with Youth Workers and young people. She is currently leading a 3 year collaborative project What's the Story? which is dedicated to capturing, exploring and responding to the stories of young people in the area.
MA Fine Art
Robert Anderson
Jason Deans
Ciara Dunne
Fiona Finnegan
Emma Kelly
Yvonne Kennan
Duncan Ross
Harriet Tahany
MA Multidisciplinary Design
Jane Allen
Jane Allen is an applied artist with a background in Textile Crafts. The emphasis of her practice is on texture, decoration and the hybrid mix of traditional and contemporary techniques; to create simple, uncomplicated sculptural forms.
Playing with the ideas of transparency and opacity, through layering and pleating techniques adds a new sense of relief and depth to the work. Allenʼs work can be realised through installations, architectural spaces and as decorative artifacts.
Kyle Boyd
He’s changed things, forever. Who? Kyle Boyd. He is a talented young designer from Northern Ireland. He loves design and wants to show everyone his passion. Passion for what? For accessible design on the web. Kyle specialises in this area and meets the needs of everyone.
Oh, and by the way, he’s disabled.
Paddy Donnelly
Paddy Donnelly is ‘The Viral Guy’. He has eesxtvine eprxeiecne in cnodtnciug viarl mretkanig cmaapigns, btoh onnile and oflnife. ‘The Big Wrod Pcorejt’ is the msot nboltae, geneiatrng a hgih csals prtofoilo of wrok and an eenxtsive lsit of ctontacs aillnwog him to mkae a nmae for helimsf in the wrold of vrail mkianrteg.
Lee Munroe
Lee Munroe is an experienced web designer who has worked with clients throughout the UK and Ireland. Lee’s expertise lies with web applications and usability, designing simple and elegant websites targeting the user experience.
Lee is also an enthusiastic entrepreneur with successful online projects such as The Big Word Project under his belt.
Katherine Penney
The work on show in this exhibition has stemmed from a project based around thoughts and feelings. Often in life things are there in front of you, but you don’t see them. Beauty can blend into the background and, before you know it, the moment is gone. Other times it is only when one looks hard enough that things become clear. This work represents how beauty is not always the obvious; it can come in a kind word, a gesture or even a thought.
Jenna Roddy
Jenna Roddy is a digital artist with a background in web design. Her practice centres on data visualisation, a blend of information design and digital graphic arts. Her current work focuses on exploring the two contrasting levels within her pieces, the aesthetic quality of the visual outcome and the underlying, hidden statistical data.
MDes Textile Material Product
Hannah Casey
Hannah Casey’s practice incorporates sculpture and drawing with textiles. She is interested in ideas of structure, shelter and space - large enough for people, or small enough for imaginary creatures. The choices Hannah makes in materials are important to her work aesthetically as well as ethically, preferring to re-use materials at hand such as found fabric, cardboard and plastics. Her practice involves working alone and collaboratively with performance artists or community groups.
Jeannie Johnston
Having obtained a degree in Physics with Astrophysics, Jeannie Johnston has started her textile career from a very unique background. Her interest in science is expressed through her work in which she examines the ideas of paradoxes and parallel worlds. Specialising in print design for fashion, the naïve aesthetic of her work is mixed with scientific theorems to create something witty and intriguing.
Lyndsey McDougall
Lyndsey McDougall is an installation artist who experiments with the boundaries of privacy. Her work reflects a high level of craftsmanship and she often uses found materials as mnemonic functions, to stimulate memory and conversation. Her work is tied to objects, places and people. The viewer is encouraged to read and discuss work that often resembles extracts from a diary; this can be both intriguing and unsettling.
Beth Milligan
Before beginning her Masters in Textile Material Product, Beth Milligan completed her degree in Woven Textiles at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She is currently developing copper wire weave structures for furniture and windows using colour patination techniques and chemical oxidisation. Her work focuses on experimental surface design, the use of alternative materials and mixed media methods.
Edele O’Kane
Edele O’Kane is a talented illustrator and fashion fabric designer. She has an individual approach and style of design and continuously experiments with new ideas. She has an enthusiasm for pattern and print with her design concepts portrayed through beautiful drawings and the use of traditional and contemporary techniques in fabric manipulation.
Riona Treacy
Riona Treacy comes from a background in printed textiles and surface pattern design. Her current work focuses on creating wearable textiles. Riona takes inspiration from a variety of sources in particular the female body. Through utilising various textile processes in her designs, Riona is creating a collection of garments which reflects her fascination with the female form.
