LSAD Graduate Show 2019

Posted on June 5, 2019

The largest ever Graduate Show in the Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT’s 167 Year history opened on June 1^st and will run at the Clare Street Campus, Limerick until June 9^th. Annie Fletcher, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art officially opened the ambitious nine-day graduate show.

The work on display this year spans the output of 12 undergraduate programmes in art, design and media, and encompasses the entire LIT Clare Street campus of LSAD. For the first time, the show also features the work of LSAD digital arts students from the LIT Clonmel Campus. This showcase will include game art and design, digital animation production and creative media.

From June 1^st to June 9^th, from 10am to 5pm, visitors are free to explore the diverse work of more than 200 emerging designers and artists, with work from students of ceramics, painting, printmaking, graphic design communication, sculpture and combined media, fashion, animation and motion design, photography, film, video, fashion knitwear and textiles, and digital arts programmes all on display.

Commenting on this year’s showcase, Limerick School of Art and Design Dean Mike Fitzpatrick said“Increasingly the LSAD Graduate Show is an unmissable event in Limerick’s cultural calendar. The breadth of this show reflects the growth and dynamism of LSAD, one of the largest schools of art and design in Ireland. With over 1,200 students, the school has recently expanded to include BSc programmes in music technology, creative broadcasting and visual effects. One of its key strengths are the impressive range of external collaborations these graduating students have participated in.”

The LSAD Graduate Show is also an exhibition of prize winning work from across fine art and design including the Fashion Future Makers competition. Also on display is the work of Fashion Knitwear and Textiles graduate Shauna Ward, whose collection of woven, laser-cut and digital design won the LEO Creative Enterprise Prize. Collaborations worked on by this graduating cohort include projects with Georgia Tech in the US, Animation Dingle Festival, the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the Unwrap Fashion Festival and an ongoing animation project for The Cranberries final album.

LSAD continues to lead the way in the Irish fashion world, as the only Irish college selected again to participate at London Graduate week. The School will be represented by BA Fashion student Roisin Ni Loinghsigh. The Limerick School of Art and Design also boasts the winner of the 2019 Student Designer of the Year. This honour went to BA Fashion student Holly-Rose Twomey from Youghal who received her award at the prestigious Irish Fashion Innovation Awards (IFIA).

It’s an event not to be missed!