Professor Sarah Glennie ∙ Director

NCAD WORKS 2024 provides a portal to the full breadth of work by our extraordinary graduates from across our four schools of Fine Art, Design, Education, and Visual Culture and encompasses students graduating from our broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and CEAD programmes. 

Collectively, our graduates represent Ireland’s creative future, and they each hold great potential to play a dynamic and impactful role in the Ireland we face right now. As you will see from this work, our students want to fuel change in a creative and productive way, from how we design our public services to the way we see each other. 

They are emerging into their professional careers at an exciting time as new opportunities emerge in Ireland for creative graduates. The creative sector is one of the fastest growing in the global economy. Ireland’s creative graduates drive our creative and cultural sectors, which currently contribute 3.7% of Gross Added Value to the economy, with room to grow even more.

Our students are fully engaged with the world beyond the NCAD campus, and they continue to demonstrate their ambition and commitment to make work that has impact and meaning to us all in many different ways. The big challenges that face society can be traced across our graduates' work as they apply their creativity to bringing new solutions, critical thinking, and reflection onto issues including sustainability, gender identity and equality, wellbeing, new technologies, and our digital and material futures.  

An education at NCAD is the starting point for generations of bold and curious minds that have made an enormous contribution to society in many different ways. We are confident that this generation is set to continue this extraordinary legacy as they leave us equipped with the imagination, creativity, and critical thinking that will ensure that they make an impact in whatever path they follow. 

So, on behalf of An Bord and all my colleagues at NCAD – congratulations to all our graduating students; we are extremely proud of all that you have achieved, and we look forward to following your creative journeys in the future.

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Courses on show:

BA Fashion
BA Jewellery & Objects
BA Textile & Surface Design
Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
BA Graphic Design
BA Illustration
BA Moving Image Design
BA Interaction Design
BA Product Design
Applied Materials
Media
Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
MA Design for Body & Environment
MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design
MSC Medical Device Design
Prof Dip Service Design
BA Visual Culture

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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

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Media



MA/ MFA Art and Social Action

The MA/ MFA Art and Social Action is a new 1-year full-time/ 2-year part-time postgraduate programme focused on trans-disciplinary practice and thinking that emphasises collaboration and the exploration of creative and comparative approaches to social transformation and inquiry. A primary focus of the programme is the capacity of arts practice to imagine our world differently.

This MA/MFA attracts graduates from diverse backgrounds who are committed to developing their creative practices to address social issues, spatial injustices and civic life through community collaboration, public intervention or collective action. As such, the programme is committed to supporting the development of skills and knowledge for professional practice in socially engaged and collaborative arts, and design, as well as in related fields such as education and community work.

Full time (Sep 2024 - Sep 2025)

Cleide Regina De Oliveira
Fiona O’Neill
Stephanie Saidha

Part time (2024- 2026)

Sarah Byrne
Sinead Clancy
Caoimhe Cronin
Aengus Hennessy
Rukmini Kelkar
Annah Knight
Susan O’Neill

MA/MFA Art and Social Action Field trip to the Bee Sanctuary of Ireland in Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow, April 2024

MA/MFA Art and Social Action Field trip to the Bee Sanctuary of Ireland in Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow, April 2024

The MA/MFA Art and Social Action group playing *World of Work* with artist and NCAD lecturer Michelle Browne, NCAD, November 2023.

The MA/MFA Art and Social Action group playing World of Work with artist and NCAD lecturer Michelle Browne, NCAD, November 2023.

Public engagement with a map proposing ideas for leisure in the Liberties area - an artefact from the SICCDA archive. Part of a collaborative project by MA Art and Social Action students Sue O’ Neill, Caoimhe Cronin and Cleide Regina Oliveira, presented at NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Public engagement with a map proposing ideas for leisure in the Liberties area - an artefact from the SICCDA archive. Part of a collaborative project by MA Art and Social Action students Sue O’ Neill, Caoimhe Cronin and Cleide Regina Oliveira, presented at NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Installation by the Tend & Amend Collective (Sarah Byrne, Fiona O’ Neill, Rukmini Kelkar and Sinead Clancy), a response to a project engaging with the SICCDA archive, presented as part of *Outside the Box*, NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Installation by the Tend & Amend Collective (Sarah Byrne, Fiona O’ Neill, Rukmini Kelkar and Sinead Clancy), a response to a project engaging with the SICCDA archive, presented as part of Outside the Box, NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Counter Institution Workshop with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, at Counter Infrastructures conference, NCAD, December 2023

Counter Institution Workshop with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, at Counter Infrastructures conference, NCAD, December 2023

Dr Ailbhe Murphy and Dr Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews) teaching a specially designed Research Methods module for the MA Art and Social Action in Trimester 1, NCAD, October 2023.

Dr Ailbhe Murphy and Dr Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews) teaching a specially designed Research Methods module for the MA Art and Social Action in Trimester 1, NCAD, October 2023.

Sarah Byrne

Sarah Byrne

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action

Sinead Clancy

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Caoimhe Cronin

Caoimhe Cronin

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Annah Knight

Annah Knight

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Cleide Regina de Oliveira

Cleide Regina de Oliveira

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Susan O’Neill

Susan O’Neill

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Steph Saidha

Steph Saidha

 MA/ MFA Art and Social Action
Counter Institution Workshop with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, at Counter Infrastructures conference, NCAD, December 2023

Counter Institution Workshop with The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, at Counter Infrastructures conference, NCAD, December 2023

MA/MFA Art and Social Action Field trip to the Bee Sanctuary of Ireland in Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow, April 2024

MA/MFA Art and Social Action Field trip to the Bee Sanctuary of Ireland in Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow, April 2024

Public engagement with a map proposing ideas for leisure in the Liberties area - an artefact from the SICCDA archive. Part of a collaborative project by MA Art and Social Action students Sue O’ Neill, Caoimhe Cronin and Cleide Regina Oliveira, presented at NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Public engagement with a map proposing ideas for leisure in the Liberties area - an artefact from the SICCDA archive. Part of a collaborative project by MA Art and Social Action students Sue O’ Neill, Caoimhe Cronin and Cleide Regina Oliveira, presented at NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Installation by the Tend & Amend Collective (Sarah Byrne, Fiona O’ Neill, Rukmini Kelkar and Sinead Clancy), a response to a project engaging with the SICCDA archive, presented as part of *Outside the Box*, NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

Installation by the Tend & Amend Collective (Sarah Byrne, Fiona O’ Neill, Rukmini Kelkar and Sinead Clancy), a response to a project engaging with the SICCDA archive, presented as part of Outside the Box, NCAD Gallery, May 2024.

The MA/MFA Art and Social Action group playing *World of Work* with artist and NCAD lecturer Michelle Browne, NCAD, November 2023.

The MA/MFA Art and Social Action group playing World of Work with artist and NCAD lecturer Michelle Browne, NCAD, November 2023.

Dr Ailbhe Murphy and Dr Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews) teaching a specially designed Research Methods module for the MA Art and Social Action in Trimester 1, NCAD, October 2023.

Dr Ailbhe Murphy and Dr Ciaran Smyth (Vagabond Reviews) teaching a specially designed Research Methods module for the MA Art and Social Action in Trimester 1, NCAD, October 2023.