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
BA Product Design
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MA Design for Body & Environment
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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Print

Andrew Gray

he/him

Meditation Through Motion

My work is deeply rooted in nature, with mindfulness at its core. I am fascinated by spontaneous expression, patterns of repetition, and experimentation. In my art, I play with patterns and scale to reflect their diversity in the natural world. My approach is multifaceted, employing techniques such as digital painting, ink drawing, screen printing, drypoint, and etching. I create images using traditional printmaking processes, often incorporating digital elements. To highlight humanity's artificial impact on nature, I add neon pink hand-drawn lines.

The creative ambition of this work is to encourage viewers to slow down and foster a love for nature and its therapeutic qualities. Poetry is integral to my process; my verses inspire visual pieces and offer me the same solace as nature itself.

Art is a timeless craft with many intricacies and patterns. Nature weaves into the tapestry of life, leaving beholders smitten and soothed. Tendrils tending to souls.

Print

Neon Tendrils, screenprint, digital print, drawing, 841mm x 594mm — Neon Tendrils, screenprint, digital print, drawing, 841mm x 594mm

Swirls of Flight, acrylic painting, digital print, 841mm x 594mm — Swirls of Flight, acrylic painting, digital print, 841mm x 594mm

A Plant Apart, dry point print, digital print, digital painting, drawing, 841mm x 594mm — A Plant Apart, dry point print, digital print, digital painting, drawing, 841mm x 594mm

Flock Of Petals, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm — Flock Of Petals, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm

Shards of Bright, drawing, drypoint etching, 297mm x 210mm — Shards of Bright, drawing, drypoint etching, 297mm x 210mm

Cascading Leaves, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm — Cascading Leaves, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm

Alien Cyclone, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm — Alien Cyclone, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm

Crystal Petals, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm — Crystal Petals, drawing, drypoint etching, 420mm x 297mm

Tower of Strength, drawing, drypoint etching, 297mm x 210mm — Tower of Strength, drawing, drypoint etching, 297mm x 210mm

Resilience Through Elegance, drawing, drypoint etching, 297x210 mm

Mindfulness through art and verse

Research

<p><em>Tile Of Thought</em>, drawing for mural in exhibition, dimensions vary</p> — Tile Of Thought, drawing for mural in exhibition, dimensions vary

<p><em>Abstraction of Nature,</em> photograph, exhibition, dimensions vary</p> — Abstraction of Nature, photograph, exhibition, dimensions vary

<p>Mural in progress, NCAD exhibition space, dimensions vary</p> — Mural in progress, NCAD exhibition space, dimensions vary

<p><em>Book of Leaves and Verses</em>, drawing, writing, digital, riso print, 205mm x 140mm</p> — Book of Leaves and Verses, drawing, writing, digital, riso print, 205mm x 140mm

<p><em>Calm And Foliage</em>, photograph, final exhibition, dimensions vary</p> — Calm And Foliage, photograph, final exhibition, dimensions vary