Graduate Photography Exhibition 2013

This year The Exchange in Temple bar  plays host to graduates of photography who have come through the level 6 Higher National Diploma programme in St Kevins College of Further Education, Dublin. This is only the Fourth year of the stand-alone level 6 course and the exhibition itself represents the diversity, energy and uniqueness that the college provides.

Developing photographic skills are, of course, a crucial element of any photographic course, at any level. Yet, skills alone are simply not enough in the contemporary photographic landscape. The process we set in place in St Kevin’s College encourages students to find a photographic personality – a vision which is a pure expression of the individual’s own visual experience of the world around us, an expression of their own creative sensibilities and a reflection of their own technical strengths and abilities.  At the start of each college year, students propose an idea, or a concept, which will be developed photographically throughout the year.

Mike Bors c.

Robbie Mullins c.

Andrew OToole c.

Lisa OMalley c.

Alan OKeefe c.

Justyna Kielbowicz c

There is a necessity, within this process, of visual connection to a subject or theme. Students find their own topic, their own vision and to try to translate these effectively. Together with their tutors, students explore traditional and contemporary approaches to given themes and subject matter and, further, find an aesthetic and conceptual solution to suit the individuals own subject. My role has been to help students find their subject, their vision and translate it effectively. The process  is supported on an on-going basis by a series of workshops and further refined through a succession of critical reviews, with the involvement of all tutors and peers. At these critical reviews we have established a type of synergy between tutors and students which is part of the successes of this year’s exhibition.

Antonia Kenny c.

Beata Cierzniewska

The work exhibited in The Exchange will reflect the broad demographics within the college itself. The show overall spans the spectrum of the commercial world to the personal world – each with its own approach and style, strengths and skills. The exhibition is testament to the students themselves, to the investment they have made in their own work throughout the year and the efforts they have made to produce what is the largest and finest St Kevin’s College Graduate exhibition to date.

Martin Cregg

2nd Year Tutor

To See More Student Works visit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stkevinscollegephotography

Recent Events at St Kevin's College of Further Education | Photography

Its been a busy start to 2013: In February, we hosted the CDVEC Public Speaking competition - open to all colleges under the VEC remit. A great success and a valuable experience to all involved. At the end of the term our 2nd years held their interim exhibition: 'In Process' - which displayed individuals ongoing projects and proposals for the upcoming Graduate Exhibition in May. Again The Exchange in Temple Bar will play host to our annual event. Further, in February, a selection of our 2nd Year students initiated the Dublin division of he international community project 'Inside Out' - a large scale participatory art project that transforms public spaces with artistic works. The selection of portraits were projected and displayed in the City Centre throughout the month of February. The environment of St Kevin's College, and many of our past students, were featured in the Gallery of Photography as part of the Irish Contemporary Award: Showcase. Our Tutor Martin Cregg was shortlisted for the award which was won by one of our visiting lecturers Richard Gilligan. 

Looking forward, we will be hosting the CDVEC Photography Competition - open to all PLC colleges in the Dublin area. We are taking submissions now. Contact College for details. We are also taking applications for our courses in Photography & Media for the 2013/14 terms. Interviews have already begun. 

For more information contact the college: 

http://www.stkevinscollege.ie/photography.php

'In Process' - 2nd Year Interim  Subject Proposal Exhibition

'Inside Out Dublin'

Portrait of one of our Students Aislinn OShea  as part of Showcase at The Gallery of Photography

Looking Forward - CDVEC Photography Competition 2013

Looking Forward - St Kevins College Photography Graduate Exhibition 2013

Student Work | Themes: 'Quiet' & 'Sense of Place'

c. Paulina Golebiewska

C. Christina Gismondi

This is a task allocated to students in December. Each student was asked to produce a series of inter-connecting images based on the assigned themes -  'Quiet' and  ‘Sense of Place’. Again, as with previous assignments, the task had no set criteria, was not graded, not directed to any great degree, and was open to the students interpretation of what the term or the theme encapsulates. Here is a short selection of the work made. 

C. Josef Kovac

C. Julia Delatowska  

C. David Cooper

C. Ruta Prendiukaite

C. Lee Murray

C. Vicky Mooney

C. Derek Lynch

C. Aisling  Mc Curtin

'RENDERING SPACE' | 1st Year Workshop

Mark Colgan

Etaoin Doyle 

Any given space is measurable and limited, but the possibilities of expression within that space are immeasurable and limit-less. This is the foundational basis of our ‘Rendering Space’ workshop. We take any given space, small or large - a room, a street, a building - and we produce a variety of individual representations and expressions of it and from it. The workshop explores how students visually interact with their immediate & familiar environment and express that limited space within given time restraints. The workshop is developed for 12-20 students, each closely negotiating the same space in a short allocated timeframe. On this first, experimental workshop the space is the familiar environment of the Studio/Classroom, the timeframe is 2 hrs. 

Ciara Keogh

Derek Lynch

Ciara Keogh

The teaching process is delivered as follows: A short lecture about issues of space and its expression - looking at how several artists have expressed the same space. This brief lecture prompts ideas & approaches, which open up the notion of how many diverse representations can be made within a very restricted environment. This is followed by the allocation of a single room, building or a small compact outdoor area. From within this room – this limited space - students are encouraged to express, in their own diverse style, the environment itself through the creation of three inter-connected images. While the workshop places physical, spacial, time constraints and supposed creative limitations on the student, as well as a degree of pressure to produce, it fully encourages them to rethink and negotiate the space in a new visual way. 

Aisling McCurtin

Lee Murray

Gemma Nicholson

Vicky Mooney

Etaoin Doyle

Holly Skelton

Rose Murphy

Vicky Mooney

Gemma Nicholson

Julia Delatowska

Rachel Coady

Richard Sheehan 

Etaoin Doyle

Rachel Brooks

Claire Daly