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.

Thomas St Campus

100 Thomas Street
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7–15 June

Fri 7 June 10am–8pm
Sat 8 June 10am–5pm
Sun 9 June 10am–5pm
Mon 10 June 10am–8pm
Tue 11 June 10am–8pm
Wed 12 June 10am–8pm
Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
Fri 14 June 10am–8pm
Sat 15 June 10am–5pm

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

The Annex

102–3 James’ Street
Directions

7–15 June

Fri 7 June 10am–8pm
Sat 8 June 10am–5pm
Sun 9 June 10am–5pm
Mon 10 June 10am–8pm
Tue 11 June 10am–8pm
Wed 12 June 10am–8pm
Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
Fri 14 June 10am–8pm
Sat 15 June 10am–5pm

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

John St W
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Fri 7 June 10am–8pm
Sat 8 June 10am–5pm
Sun 9 June 10am–5pm
Mon 10 June 10am–8pm
Tue 11 June 10am–8pm
Wed 12 June 10am–8pm
Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
Fri 14 June 10am–8pm
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Media

Colin Ryan

As I see it

‘As I see it’ is a collection of oil and acrylic paintings that show the world through the artist’s impaired eyesight since childhood, and reliving it with the added visual degeneration of age.

Compositions are created using tools that cause similar distortion, taking deliberately ‘bad’ photography to replicate this reality before committing them to canvas. The work explores the effects of multiple conditions from myopia and astigmatism to night blindness, both individually and combined.

What is revealed is an entirely new way of existing that is both dark and uneasy, beautiful and joyful, and sometimes both at the same time. The viewer experiences this different world where, light sources dominate and obliterate their surroundings while also remapping the scene.

Across the Bridge South, 2023, acrylic on paper, 590cm x 810cm

Across the Bridge South, 2023, acrylic on paper, 590cm x 810cm

Thomas Street Journey, 2024, oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

Thomas Street Journey, 2024, oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

North of Eden, 2024, oil on canvas ,44cm x 105cm

North of Eden, 2024, oil on canvas ,44cm x 105cm