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
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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Lauren O’Reilly

Lex Talionis

As individuals, we hold a spectrum of views shaped by various influences, including religion. While religious doctrines usually unequivocally condemn actions like revenge, the complexity of human experiences challenges this absolutism.

My project explores the moral ambiguity of revenge through philosophy and art by questioning how our perceptions of revenge and sex/gender dynamics intersect, and asking what insight does ‘Female Rage’ provide?

The project comprises a large-scale publication that examines societal perceptions of revenge and sex-based dynamics; a series of booklets that prompt readers to assess the motives behind revenge tales and discern their justifiability and foam sculptures of a female medical symbol sword and a dagger-heeled stiletto. These pieces all visually subvert ‘Female Rage’.

My practice aims to challenge the binary thinking that often dominates our moral biases. The goal is not to impose agreement, but rather to encourage empathy, even in the absence of consensus.

Ouroboric Vindicta, greyscale print on cream 120gsm paper, spiral bound, 42cm × 29.7cm × 0.5cm — Ouroboric Vindicta, greyscale print on cream 120gsm paper, spiral bound, 42cm × 29.7cm × 0.5cm

Ouroboric Vindicta (Medusa Spread), greyscale print on cream 120gsm paper, spiral bound, 42cm × 59.4cm × 0.5cm — Ouroboric Vindicta (Medusa Spread), greyscale print on cream 120gsm paper, spiral bound, 42cm × 59.4cm × 0.5cm

Möbius Motives, greyscale print on various coloured 135gsm paper, various binding techniques, 20cm × 20cm × 5cm — Möbius Motives, greyscale print on various coloured 135gsm paper, various binding techniques, 20cm × 20cm × 5cm

Möbius Motives (Legacy, Beneficial, Closure Booklets), greyscale print on yellow, red and blue 135gsm paper, cut-out shapes on 135gsm matte black paper, various binding techniques, 20cm × 20cm × 1cm per booklet — Möbius Motives (Legacy, Beneficial, Closure Booklets), greyscale print on yellow, red and blue 135gsm paper, cut-out shapes on 135gsm matte black paper, various binding techniques, 20cm × 20cm × 1cm per booklet

Möbius Motives, (Entire Booklet Series), greyscale print on 135gsm coloured paper, cut-out shapes on 135gsm matte black paper, various binding techniques, 20cm x 20cm x 1-3 cm per booklet — Möbius Motives, (Entire Booklet Series), greyscale print on 135gsm coloured paper, cut-out shapes on 135gsm matte black paper, various binding techniques, 20cm x 20cm x 1-3 cm per booklet

Acutrix, a sword sculpture made from papier-mâché, foam, white paint, approximately a metre in length — Acutrix, a sword sculpture made from papier-mâché, foam, white paint, approximately a metre in length

The creation of the black on black belly band. Greyscale print on 135gsm matte black paper

The paper cutting machine in use. Cutting out the title Möbius Motives into 150gsm matte black paper — The paper cutting machine in use. Cutting out the title Möbius Motives into 150gsm matte black paper

Two out of six booklets in the process of assembly