Masters in Fine Art

Rocky Meaney

‘EMBODYMENTS’ # 3 Live Site – Specific Site Responsive Performance - ‘AFFINITIES’ MA in Fine Art Graduation Show Opening, - September 4th, 2024, LSAD Gallery Grounds & Clare Street Park, TUS – Limerick School of Art & Design, Clare Street, Limerick City

Rocky’s Live Art Practice is firmly rooted in the areas of Time-Based Performance Art, Site – Specific and Responsive Performance, with a strong emphasis on Process Performance Drawing. Rocky works primarily in the mediums of live performance, moving image and drawing. Using a process-based performance methodology, Rocky’s live performance works enable him to use his body as architecture and infrastructure within specific environments. Presenting his body as material and a vessel for the embodiment of artifacts, gathering traces from the natural world, he uses his body as a tool implementing the dual processes of mapping and tracing the landscape. Rocky’s site responsive performances further explore this idea of the body as architecture, responding through performative actions, gestures, and movements to site, positioning the work within a contextual framework. He positions his body within internal architectural spaces immersing and engaging with structures and found objects as a form of human architecture.

Rocky Meaney MA in Fine Art TUS LSAD July 2024

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Welcome

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.