Counter Balance

Visual Communications

Tamara Stone

Counter Balance

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the name given to a broad range of developmental disorders. These include communication and relationship difficulties and affects 1 in 100 children worldwide. Recent studies shows this figure is increasing. Many people don’t realise the vast array of difficulties people with the disorder encounter on a daily basis and the effects that it has on their lives and their caretakers. This project will act as the ‘Counterbalance’, aiming to inform and broaden individuals’ minds when it comes to ASD. ‘Counterbalance’ will focus in on different subject matters, bringing to light the changes needed to create a balance between people with ASD and those without. This project specifically looks at factors that contribute to effective communication. It addresses the guidelines we need to alter when communicating with someone facing the difficulties associated with ASD. By making a visual interpretation of the world some ASD individuals live in, it will generate understanding, tolerance and normalisation of the effects while overall aiding people in creating a balance to make communication more effective.

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Welcome

We formally welcome you to ‘be.cause_’, the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2017 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Painting, Printmaking & Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media, Ceramic Design, Creative Multimedia, Fashion Design, Fashion Knit & Textiles and Visual Communications.

This show is the culmination of the last four years of discipline introduction, skill-building, research and experimentation which has finally led the graduates here; synthesising all they’ve learned and absorbed during their time in LSAD. 2017 has been a historic year, peppered with student exhibitions and awards both national and international. This year is the first graduating year of the Fashion Knit & Textiles cohort, culminating in a memorable show that featured a wonderful collaboration between students on the programme and students on the Creative Multimedia programme in LSAD Clonmel.

This type of collaboration is one of the most important things graduates will take with them. It’s not only important within the context of an art college, but remains a crucial part of the wider world context of art and design. Increasingly, the creative professions need graduates as flexible, adaptable individuals, capable of working across a variety of media and disciplines. For the last four years they’ve all been working together, and we hope that they continue to stay in touch, and continue to build interdisciplinary links as they advance into their careers.