This year, the wonderful Mart
Gallery and Studios in Lower Rathmines play host to graduates who have come
through the level 6 Higher National Diploma programme at St Kevin’s College. The work exhibited by our students this year,
again reflects the broad demographics of the college itself and the diversity,
energy and uniqueness that the college provides.
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ANNA NOWAKOWSKA
"Waiting" | My work is a reflection on the time of waiting – those emotional and pensive days and moments leading up to the death of my Father. Grasping his fading presence in light reflecting on the surface of a frozen lake. Trying to find answers to questions that cannot be asked. The stillness of water and the colour of grass, the world fading quietly along with my fathers life. |
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MANDY KAVANAGH – “The last leaf”
This body of work deals with the very serious issue of suicide clusters in Ireland. My focus is on a very specific location in Clondalkin where many young men have chosen to end their lives – a hanging tree, which is commonly known in the area for being the place of sadness and loss. The last leaf refers to the fragments that I have collected at the last cycle of autumn of this tree, a leaf representing the individual who last took their life here. The land that the tree sits on is due to be rezoned - work on the site is due to commence mid-2015. |
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SHARON FLANAGAN
Sport can highlight
and expose perceptions of gender and issues masculinity and femininity. Though a series of intimate
portraits, I want to challenge some of the misconceptions of women's rugby and
the individuals who play the game at all levels.
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DIMITRI AVKHADEEV - ‘The
Lonely Station’
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WANDERLEY MASSAFFELLI
'La Barca' is an
escape for some people. It is a house full of young people, from Brazil, living
in Dublin, establishing relationships and human bonds – partying, living life
on the edge, forming connections beyond their own culture and country and
feeling a sense of home away from home.
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At the start of each college
year, students propose an idea, or a concept, which will be developed
photographically throughout the year. The development of project-based and
concept-based photography is crucial in students’ development and understanding
of photography at this early stage of their careers. 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. My
role has been to help students find their subject, their vision and translate
it effectively. Together we explore traditional and contemporary approaches to given
themes and subject matter and, further, find an aesthetic and conceptual
solution to the individual’s own work. 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 close creative synergy between tutors and students which is part
of the success of our course and the triumph of this year’s graduate
exhibition.
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ARTURAS RACKAUSKAS
"Home" | My project deals with memory, identity and a yearning to connect with home. Since 2006, I have lived in Ireland - after spending my life on my family’s land in Lithuania. I try to merge images from my past and present life – from the beautiful place of my childhood, to the place that I live in now. Through a mental and pictorial reconstruction, of two places that I call home, the images represent a duality of characteristics and reveal the relationship between the reality of now and the memory of my distant home. |
Martin Cregg
2nd Year Tutor
May 2015
