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Portrait of the Artist as a working Class Hero

Fergal Conlan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Film, Performance art, Prints and Ceramics
Country: Britain
Century: 21st Century

10,000 words

Grayson Perry is one of the most successful artists active in Britain today. He works mainly in ceramics, tapestries and prints. Perry experimented with many styles and techniques, including film and performance art before focusing primarily on the medium of ceramics. His ceramics are aesthetically attractive, pretty to look at when initially encounted. However when the images and text presented are examined more closely they are shocking in their dark and sometimes sexually explicit subject matter. Perry’s practice and ethos has been heavily influenced by a number of sources, including the performance art group. The Neo-Naturists and the art and life of the outsider artist Henry Darger. Perry won and accepted the Turner Prize in 2003, for his exhibition entitled ‘Guerrilla Tactics’, 2003.

The Irish Museum of Modern Art: A Look at Policy in Practice

Louise Connolly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Painting and Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Irish Roots, Conceptual Wings: The Art of Brian O’Doherty

Jack Connolly Dowling
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Conceptual Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

A dissertation on the history and architecture of Kilcrea Friary

Tatiana Convery
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1990
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

Thomas Eakins: His Rowing Pictures

Carl Convery
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

An Undiscovered Treasure: St. Mary’s, New Ross, Co. Wexford

Anne Conway
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: Early 13th Century

10,000 words

Aubrey Beardsley and The Yellow Book: Visual Representations of the New Woman

Zoe Cooke
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
BA

Subject: Illustration
Country: England
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Why Sex Still Sells

Rachel Cooke
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: United Kingdom
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The Printing House, Trinity’s unsung treasure

Alice Cooper
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Vincent Kelly and his Contribution to Hospital Building in Ireland

Sheila Corballis
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines Vincent Kelly’s contribution to the hospital building program of the 1930s, with particular reference to his role of education and advising other hospital architects on good hospital design. He was an active member on committees dedicated to the hospitalisation of Ireland during the period when a commissioning program was instigated. The work carried out by Kelly while on the Committee of Reference was invaluable. It laid the foundations for further research and study to be devoted to the cause of hospitals in Ireland. He has been hailed by members of the architectural and medical profession for his unfaltering dedication to the hospital situation in Ireland. He studied modern hospital design in Europe and adapted their style and techniques to his hospital buildings.

Hito Steyerl and the Art of the Essay

Niamh Corcoran
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Video, Performance art, digital technology
Country: Germany
Century: 21st Century

10,000 words

Over the course of three chapters this dissertation will examine the use and acaptability of the essay form in Hito Steyerl’s work. She has a fluid, often contradictory investigative voice. This manifests itself in her lectures and videos as means of focusing on issues of knowledge production, personal and collective memory, imaging making and digital technology, It is hoped to demonstrate that these processes feed into the term-coined by Steyerl -’circulationism’ which is in turn indicative of Steyerl’s whole working method. In doing so it is hoped to argue that the format of the essay is not an objective entity which obeys a linear logic of continuity ending in a definitive conclusion, but rather that the order in which the arguments and thoughts are presented in an essay are self consciously contingent.

Simianising Paddy: an exploration into the portrayal of the Irish in the nineteenth century political cartoons of John Tenniel and Punch Magazine

Jennifer Corcoran
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Cartoons
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Camille Souter

Garrett Cormican
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Landscape and Control in the Eighteenth-Century Powerscourt Estate

Jack Connolly Dowling
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Landscape Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

More than just a pretty face: Self-Portraits of Italian Women Artists and the Shaping of Identity

Aoife Cosgrove
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16- 18th Century

10,000 words

The Influence of the Irish Political Landscape on the Evolution of the Physical Landscape at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Caroline Costello
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Memorial
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th & 21st Century

10,000 words

The Conflicting Presence of Nation in the Altermodern An Examination of the Art of Globalisation and in it, the presence of National Identity

Eleanor Costello
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Installation, Photography and Digital
Country: England
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The topic of this dissertation is Globalisation and Contemporary art. This subject is extremely relevant to the current climate in the art world and defines what has been occurring in art in the 21st century.In order to discuss coherently this complicated and concentrated topic it has been narrowed down specifically into one area of interest. The aim of the dissertation is to show examples from ‘Altermodern’ which demonstrates the global world today. Many theorists such as Bourriaud chose to believe that we live in a boundary less environment. Hence, the prevalence and subliminal influence of the nation state and the local on ones’ identity still exists. Even in the art of globalisation one can see evidence of something more negatively oriented and narrow then perhaps discourse on the topic suggests.

Rahan Churches, Co. Offaly: An Architectural and Stylistic Study

Caroline Cowley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Ireland: Co. Offaly
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Urnes Ornament in Ireland

Treasa Cox
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Sculpture and Panels
Country: Ireland
Period: 7th – 10th Century

10,000 words

“The Word made Flesh” : A study of Feminine beauty in Cinquecento Venetian painting

Irene Coyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Work of Andrew Devane

Jennifer Coyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Van der Hagen Problem in the British Isles

Mia Craig
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: England and Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Approaching the Works of a Morally Reprehensible Artist

Taylor Crates
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Art

10,000 words

The Dog in Painting: From Prop to Prominence

Aisling Crawley-Fay
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting and Prints
Country: England, Holland, Italy, Spain and France
Period: 16th– 20th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —B.A.

Portrait of the Artist as a working Class Hero

The Irish Museum of Modern Art: A Look at Policy in Practice

Irish Roots, Conceptual Wings: The Art of Brian O’Doherty

A dissertation on the history and architecture of Kilcrea Friary

Thomas Eakins: His Rowing Pictures

An Undiscovered Treasure: St. Mary’s, New Ross, Co. Wexford

Aubrey Beardsley and The Yellow Book: Visual Representations of the New Woman

Why Sex Still Sells

The Printing House, Trinity’s unsung treasure

Vincent Kelly and his Contribution to Hospital Building in Ireland

Hito Steyerl and the Art of the Essay

Simianising Paddy: an exploration into the portrayal of the Irish in the nineteenth century political cartoons of John Tenniel and Punch Magazine

Camille Souter

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Landscape and Control in the Eighteenth-Century Powerscourt Estate

More than just a pretty face: Self-Portraits of Italian Women Artists and the Shaping of Identity

The Influence of the Irish Political Landscape on the Evolution of the Physical Landscape at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens

The Conflicting Presence of Nation in the Altermodern An Examination of the Art of Globalisation and in it, the presence of National Identity

Rahan Churches, Co. Offaly: An Architectural and Stylistic Study

Urnes Ornament in Ireland

“The Word made Flesh” : A study of Feminine beauty in Cinquecento Venetian painting

The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Work of Andrew Devane

The Van der Hagen Problem in the British Isles

Approaching the Works of a Morally Reprehensible Artist

The Dog in Painting: From Prop to Prominence

Education Theses Register —
B.A.