Animation & Motion Design

Opal Rayner

Bluemarsh

My wonder in nature started when I was very little during summers at my aunt’s farm Bluemarsh. There was a brook that ran through her property and provided plenty of scope for magic discovery. She gave me a huge book one summer, Cicely Mary Barker’s, ‘The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies’, a book of flower fairies and poems to accompany each one. I remember reading the book cover to cover and using it as a field guide for the rest of the summer.

I would like to provide the possibility for this sense of curiosity and exploration. As is our nature, we are explorers. It is essential for our development as a species and we do it for many reasons – knowledge, wealth, and joy. The possibilities are endless, and the process is natural.

I am very inspired by the deep rich colours of the forest in summer and autumn. This would have been the time of year I most often visited Bluemarsh. I have used a mixture of natural and bright colours in contrast with one another to provide a magical landscape. I created the creatures using a combination of sewing and model-making techniques. Each one brought to life as a fully poseable puppet. I have used a variety of materials, felt, velvet and found objects whatever is necessary to portray each character’s particular characteristics.

The final included image is taken from negatives my aunt Lissie shared with us, taken 1997.

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Welcome

We formally welcome you to IMPACT the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2020 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Animation & Motion Design, Creative Broadcast & Film Production, Ceramic Design, Creative Media and Design, Digital Animation Production, Fashion Design, Fashion & Textiles for Product & Costume, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design Communication, Music Technology & Production, Painting, Photography Film Video, Print Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media and Professional Masters of Education in Art and Design with Digital Media.

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show takes the form of this online showcase to celebrate the resilience, creativity and talent of our final year students. This is the 6^th edition of the LSAD Graduate Showcase and it is never more important. We wish to play a special tribute to Joe Lane, Programme Leader of Graphic Design Communication, who played a key role in the development of this platform back in 2015. This year, due to the COVID-19 crisis it has come into its own as the sole means of presentation of our graduates work and as an important archive of LSAD graduates over the last six years.

This years showcase features the work of LSAD Graduates across fifteen programmes, from our Limerick City Centre Campuses, Moylish Campus and Clonmel Campus. We are delighted to welcome our first graduates from Music Technology & Production and Creative Broadcast & Film Production on this platform.

The arrival of the pandemic has been a tremendous shock to our lives and the ways we interact with the world. We have all had to figure out new ways of being and doing in this ‘new normal’. It has been a tremendous challenge to our students and staff to adapt to these new circumstances. However we have been overwhelmed by the creativity and tenacity of our LSAD family of students and staff who adapted so quickly and dynamically to find ways to facilitate learning and to present work in digital forms.

We hope, that even through this situation was not in any ideal, it has forged the graduates of 2020 into a cohort of people that have adapted to adversity and succeeded.

If you are on this site as a graduate or a viewer we would like to thank all those who helped make it happen this year in challenging circumstances, our academics, technicians, administrators, students union, support staff and most importantly the 2020 graduates. Finally a huge congratulations to LSAD Student Union President, Sinead Nix and her team on their management of the Impact 2020 campaign, to Arlene Ellis and Olivia Barrett from Graphic Design Communication who proposed the Impact 2020 concept and to Pat Shortt and Simon Maguire, a big thank you for coming on board to launch our site with a cast of many.

May your creative IMPACT in our society represent our best future. #LSADFutureCreatives