Fine Art DIT Graduate Exhibition 2008

Wednesday May 28, 2008 12:16

by Fine Art DIT - Dublin Institute of Technology

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Venue: St. Joseph’s Convent, Portland Row, Dublin 1
Opening: Monday June 9th at 6-8pm
Exhibition Continues: 10th - 14th June from 10am-4pm

Alan Burns, video still

Dublin Institute of Technology
Fine Art Graduate Exhibition 2008

The DIT BA Fine Art Graduate Exhibition 2008 will be opened by Tessa Giblin (Curator of Visual Arts, Project Arts Centre) and features the work of 21 emerging artists, working in combinations of video, performance, photography, sound, installation, painting and drawing. The work on show is the result of a four-year interdisciplinary course where the students are encouraged to develop a self-directed studio practice and to allow their concept to guide the discipline employed. Some of the artists working with the students include Mark Garry, Anita Groener, Linda Quinlan, Anna Macleod, Robert McColgan, Patricia Hurl, Ronan McCrea and Patrick Graham.

The graduate class of 2008 have previously exhibited individually in the RDS Student Art Awards 2006 & 2007, the Rose Project 2007 and, most notably, Alan Burn’s award-winning Rose Project 2006 at Dublin City Council’s The Lab. Members of Cotillion have exhibited collectively at TULCA 2006 (All Shook Up), The Lab (What’s Behind Your Eye?, September 2007) and at Broadstone XL (The Forest of the Fallen Moon, July 2007). Two students, Kevin Gaffney & Alan Burns, have recently been awarded a film production grant from The European League of Institutes of the Art’s E’3 Film competition, which is to be exhibited at the 22nd Prix Europa festival in Berlin in October 2008. Students have also exhibited at IMMA (Art & Possibility, March 2007) as part of the Arts in Context Placement Programme, collaborating with diverse communities and examining their art practice in relation to social, political and environmental concerns.

The Graduate Exhibition is located in the former St. Joseph’s Convent on Portland Row, Dublin 1. The convent, constructed in the late nineteenth century, is a listed landmark building. Most of its original features remain and are incorporated into its adaptation to its present day function as an art college- with dormitories, kitchens, laundry rooms, a morgue and a chapel used as studios, work spaces and lecture rooms.

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Frances Hayes, video still