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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Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
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Media

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The Star, plaster bandage and chicken wire, Star Table crafted by carpenter, Nathan Gaynor, 2m x 2m

The Star, plaster bandage and chicken wire, Star Table crafted by carpenter, Nathan Gaynor, 2m x 2m

The Star, close- up detail

The Star, close- up detail

The Star, close-up detail

The Star, close-up detail

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The earth is empty without you. How can I live through these next few hours? Just like the leaves falling in gardens, taxis all hurry off to somewhere. It's just empty on earth alone without you. And you, you fly on and the stars will offer you their tenderness, made with beads, bells and shells

SENTINEL, plaster, four pieces

SENTINEL, plaster, four pieces

Excerpt from The Star by Arthur C.Clarke

Excerpt from The Star by Arthur C.Clarke

The Star, 2m x 2m

The Star, 2m x 2m

Holding Time and Understanding, text piece

Holding Time and Understanding, text piece