Print Contemporary Practice

Seán Lally

People Who Aren’t Real

As it turns out, the overwhelming majority of people on this planet happen to find other people interesting. To make matters worse, the same majority also happen to find representations of other people interesting too, i,e., people who aren’t real. As someone who belongs to this majority, I create people who aren’t real, in a way that someone who also has an interest in cartoons might, and I take pleasure in it.

Using different stylistic approaches across various different methods, my work is both a study and a celebration of the cartoon character, specifically, the design behind any one of them. In exploring cartoons throughout history and up until the modern day, one can see how it is more often than not the design of the resident characters which helps give each of these distinct articles its own flavour. Some simple lines, a few shapes and some colour can describe so effectively a person, an icon who we may attribute a personality to, who we can project ourselves onto, fall deeply in love with, stick on a logo, etc. This is the beauty of the cartoon character, and at the heart of any cartoon character, good or bad, is its design. And if that’s too schmaltzy for you, take it up with whoever designed me, because I actually believe this stuff I’m saying.

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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.