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
BA Textile & Surface Design
Joint (Hons) Education Design or Fine Art
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BA Illustration
BA Moving Image Design
BA Interaction Design
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MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design
MSC Medical Device Design
Prof Dip Service Design
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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Media

Al Fartukh

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Material Punk

"Punk is Dead," a statement that swept the globe announcing the end of a subculture at the end of the 1970s, but what would you say if it was proven to you that this statement is far from the truth?

Al Fartukh has been ever-present in the contemporary punk movement across Ireland and is loudly declaring that punk is not dead; it is reborn. Capturing the scene on 35mm black and white film, Al has created a physical statement in the form of punk patches and torn posters, imitating the raw energy and style of the punk community. Their work aims to break down the perceived stereotypes of angry punks and has chosen an array of photographic images to show just how alive and vibrant the punk scene is today, possibly more expressive than it ever was before.

Material Punk, installation of photographic emulsion fabrics and wheat pasted printed images on OSB, dimensions vary

Material Punk, installation of photographic emulsion fabrics and wheat pasted printed images on OSB, dimensions vary

Material Punk, photographic emulsion on cotton fabric hung with tension on embroidery floss and nails, dimensions vary

Material Punk, photographic emulsion on cotton fabric hung with tension on embroidery floss and nails, dimensions vary

Material Punk, installation of photographic emulsion fabrics hung with nails, embroidery floss and more, dimensions vary

Material Punk, installation of photographic emulsion fabrics hung with nails, embroidery floss and more, dimensions vary

Material Punk, photographic emulsion on cotton denim hung with nails and shoe laces, dimensions vary

Material Punk, photographic emulsion on cotton denim hung with nails and shoe laces, dimensions vary

Material Punk, installation of wheat pasted printed images on OSB, dimensions vary

Material Punk, installation of wheat pasted printed images on OSB, dimensions vary

Research

<p><em>Material Punk</em>, test print of a 35mm photograph of punks in a moshpit, dimensions vary</p>

Material Punk, test print of a 35mm photograph of punks in a moshpit, dimensions vary

<p><em>Material Punk, </em>variety of emulsion fabrics, embroidery floss, can tabs and more, dimensions vary </p>

Material Punk, variety of emulsion fabrics, embroidery floss, can tabs and more, dimensions vary

<p><em>Material Punk</em>, a cacophony of printed 35mm photographs printed on printer paper and wheat pasted onto a wall, dimensions vary</p>

Material Punk, a cacophony of printed 35mm photographs printed on printer paper and wheat pasted onto a wall, dimensions vary