IADT to project graduates’ films and art onto Dún Laoghaire’s LexIcon library

For creative courses, students’ time at college typically culminates in a display of their final year’s work. Whether that is an exhibition, a screening, a performance, or show, it is a way for the students to have their work seen by the outside world, often for the first time. 

However, the pandemic and its many restrictions have prevented these kind of events from happening, leading to some colleges taking a different approach. One such example is the Institute of Art Design + Technology (IADT) in Dún Laoghaire. 

From June 25-26, a selection of work from the graduating classes of 2021 will be projected onto the walls of the LexIcon library in Dún Laoghaire, allowing the public to experience the work. The work will be from the students of Animation, Design + Visual Arts, Film + Media, Photography, and Technology and Psychology, so there will be a variety of mediums as well as styles. 

The institution has a great reputation for producing graduates that go on to great things, with several of their graduates having received Oscar nominations including Kirsten Sheridan for In America and Robbie Ryan for his work on The Favourite. It was also named one of the world’s top film schools in 2020 by Variety.

Rónán Ó Muirthile, head of faculty, Film, Art and Creative Technologies at IADT, believes the students’ work this year is particularly interesting for the context in which it was created.

David Smith, the president of IADT, also points to this year’s work as something special. “2020 – a graduate class like no other. One bound together by their resilience, imagination and determination to see their work and ideas take centre-stage in the face of this unprecedented crisis.”