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Master of Education in Art & Design

Rachael McGrath

Ealaín na Lámha: The Art of Hands

This study aims to interrogate to what extent can engaging with traditional Irish hand craft practices, when creating and making a contemporary garment, enhance students’ appreciation of craft education? It explores the utilisation of craft to aid students’ cognitive development, and appraises craft as a rich and fitting creative discipline apt to develop students’ historical and cultural knowledge.

The study considered the extent to which an improvement in skills, patience, dedication and confidence can be achieved through engaging in craft and deepening students’ appreciation for craft based learning. Field trips were an imperative part of the research as they demonstrated the importance of engaging with museums and educational institutions. From these excursions students learnt the value of history and past cultural traditions, and gained an appreciation for tradition textiles and its ability to be utilised in contemporary design.

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We formally welcome you to ‘FLUX’, the Limerick School of Art & Design Graduate Show of 2018 featuring the work of final year LSAD Graduates from Painting, Photography Film Video, Print Contemporary Practice, Sculpture & Combined Media,  Ceramic Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Knit & Textiles and Graphic Design Communication.

The journey of a graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design is a deep experience of the self and ideas. An immersive collective engagement where individuality and creativity are celebrated. The strength of Art School is that all students in their multiplicity and experiences can join this collective journey of exploration across the various fine art and design disciplines. The graduate show is a wonderful moment for presentation of this journey and celebration.

The importance of having this safe space of discovery is as important to the recent school leaver as to the mature student who has found the means and the moment to return to study and pursue a dream that has been harboured for many years.

For LSAD students, Limerick city and its growing cultural confidence becomes part of this engagement. This year we welcome the beginning of a new creative industry here in Limerick, with the opening of Troy Studios, the largest film studios in Ireland. We hear of the many LSAD graduates who have been immersed in the first ongoing production ‘Nightflyers’ and the vast array of creative skills and inputs that are required and the possibilities that are opening up in the region. Many of our graduates will seek new challenges elsewhere, however we also hope that many stay or return to this region so that their enterprise and creativity will further impact and enrich our environment.