Featuring the work of five students – Mary Callaghan, Louise Kiernan, Sergey Kior, Róisín Ní Chonaill and Emma McNulty – the exhibition includes sculpture, sound, photography, film and installation and explores the experience of human encounter through landscape, language, memory, trace and voice. Holding highlights the deep engagement of the students with the island context over the course of the four-year degree programme, with much of the work concerned with ecology, community and sustainability. After a hugely successful weekend installation on Sherkin Island, we are delighted to showcase the work at Uillinn.

For more information about the graduates and their work see Holding BAVA 2026 Digital Catalogue.

This year’s five graduating students will join the ranks of one hundred and six alumni of this prestigious and highly successful programme. Graduates have gone on to Masters and PhD level programmes, including the MA Art and Environment; have secured work through teaching, lecturing and arts facilitation; and have developed careers as successful artists in West Cork and elsewhere.

This four-year modular honours degree, offering a dynamic and creative programme in contemporary visual art, fully accredited, managed and delivered by the TU Dublin School of Art and Design is OPEN NOW FOR APPLICANTS to the 2026/2027 ACADEMIC YEAR

For further information, contact TU Dublin Programme Coordinator, Jesse Jones at jesse.jones@tudublin.ie or Sherkin Island Facilitator, Majella O’Neill Collins at 086 8771765

The programme will run subject to continued funding