We continue to introduce this year’s RADAR recipients, with Ayesha Ahmad from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Her graduate project, Blue Hour, can be viewed at IADT launching tonight and running until the 15th June and a number of her other works in the @crawfordartgallery as part of SATURATION until the 26th June. Images from ‘Blue Hour’: Water surrounds us, it is within us; it heals us and breathes life into us. 'Blue Hour' is a meditative visual journey of water and the memories it holds. Composed of a series of three photographic prints accompanied by a plaster sculpture of the artist's hand, containing collected rainwater in the palm. This work explores the connection between water, memory and the human body. The water which we embody is the very water that returns to the sea to begin the cycle once again. A visual metaphor of the cycles of life itself. It is an everlasting journey, creating and holding memories along the way. ‘Blue Hour’ portrays this ongoing act of remembering. . . . The programme is aimed at providing adequate national and international opportunities for artists in order to engage with the broad arts context and consolidate their practice. RADAR is an ambitious evolution of the Inspirational Arts Photography Award first established in 2009, now expanding its remit to provide critical opportunities with the support of PhotoIreland. Find out more about RADAR and the process at photoireland.org/news . #PhotoIreland #Ireland #IrishCulture #IrishArtists #IrishPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryIreland #GraduatePhotography #NewArtists