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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BA Fashion
BA Jewellery & Objects
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Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
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MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design
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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Online Artists Talk: 'Titles': with NCAD alumnae Julia Dubsky In Conversation with Heike-Karin Föll .

This event took place on Sunday 9th June at 11AM in the NCAD C&G space. We have uploaded the event to YouTube LINKed here hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKCEnumESo

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Join Julia Dubsky In Conversation with Heike Karin Föll about 'titles' - when they discuss the origins of titling via Western painting history and the functions, or intentional dysfunctions, available in this convention today. They consider the title as a possible situating element and a signal; the title can be a 'readymade'; it can be extreme; a list of titles as form. Whatever the approach, titles are expected.

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Julia Dubsky (Dublin, IE, 1990) completed her BA in the National College of Art and Design in 2016. In 2018 she began an MFA in the class of Jutta Koether, at Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg and she has been based in Berlin since.

Heike-Karin Föll (Bad Cannstatt, DE, 1967) lives and works in Berlin. The artist is a Professor for Drawing and Critical Digitality at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK).


10 – 10 Jun / 12:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes

C&G Space and Online YouTube

.Julia Dubsky is a painter, often dealing with mimetic relationships between perception and what is depicted. She begins with automatic drawing and mark making, allowing figurative motifs to appear and to be erased selectively. The style varies as though from observation and fantasy, or abstract material without illusions - reflecting a multiplicity of attitudes in each canvas. Julia Dubsky (b. 1990, Dublin, Ireland) completed her BA in the National College of Art and Design in 2016. She was the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency recipient in 2017, which culminated in a solo exhibition, Salon of Good Time, in studio 16. In 2018 she began an MFA in the class of Jutta Koether, at Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg and she has been based in Berlin since. Recent exhibitions include M/modesty, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London (2021), Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge My Vow, PALFREY, London (2020), The Marshland Akimbo. Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London (2019), Tauchgang, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne (2019), Nascent Dirty Lemon Yellow. Pallas Projects, Dublin (2018). Dubsky was the Art School Alliance resident at Goldsmiths University, funded by DAAD and the Karl Heine Dietz Schtiftung in spring 2020.
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Heike-Karin Föll is an artist and professor for Contemporary Art in Practice and Theory at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) since 2019.
After studying Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and UdK Berlin, she has featured in many of the international art-world’s most high-profile exhibitions: Documenta and, notably, KW Berlin, where she has presented her work 2019 in a retrospective solo exhibition. She contributed to international exhibitions, both as artist and curator, including documenta X in Kassel, DE (1997) and the exhibition „When tekkno turns to sound of poetry“ at KW in 1995. 
She taught at Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Merz Academy Stuttgart, Freie Universität Berlin (FU), and other international universities as a guest professor.
After having degreed in Art History she worked at the Collaborative Research Center 626 – Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits at FU Berlin.
From 2007 Föll taught History, Theory, Criticism and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Institute for Art in Context at UdK.
In 2008, a DFG research fellowship took her to New York. She has contributed to several catalogues with texts on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and many others. Her articles have been published in journals such as Texte zur Kunst, Mousse, and Artforum.