South East Technological University B.A. (Hons) in Art – Exhibition

South East Technological University, in partnership with Wexford Arts Centre, is pleased to present the annual BA (Hons) in Art Degree show titled Halo. The exhibition officially opens at 6pm on Thursday, the 14th of May, at Wexford Arts Centre. All are welcome to attend.

Halo presents the work of nine BA (Hons) students from the Art and Design Campus of South East Technological University (SETU), Wexford. The exhibition, produced individually and collectively over the past four years, features work by Emma Daly, Clódagh Dempsey, Seán Fitzpatrick, Johanna Murphy, Matthew O’Neill, Natasha O’Neill, Jojo O’Reilly, Yvonne Power and Jan Szostek.

This exhibition brings together a diverse range of practices including painting, photography, sculpture, print, film and installation. While varied in approach and medium, the works are unified by an engagement with themes of identity, memory, transformation and perception. The artists examine the body as both subject and material, alongside broader questions surrounding the construction and evolution of the self, drawing on processes of fragmentation, reconstruction and abstraction to explore how personal and collective histories shape experience.

Attention to place and environment recur throughout this exhibition with both natural and domestic settings functioning as sites of reflection and inquiry. Through a sensitivity to materiality, light and composition, the works consider the relationship between visibility and obscurity, as well as the variability of lived experience. Collectively, the exhibition articulates a dialogue between the personal and the universal, foregrounding a generation of emerging artists engaged in exploring the evolving conditions of identity and contemporary life.