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
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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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

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Media

Margaret Callan Bergin

she/her

Can You See Me?

As a multi-disciplinary visual artist from Dublin, a background in playwriting and performance informs multiple aspects of my practice. I am a storyteller, using mixed media including painting and printing with ink and acrylic, collage, video, audio and sculpture. I am fascinated by people and place, their footprints and shadows. This body of work documents an ever-evolving Dublin City at this very moment in time.

Stories are framed by the promises and ideals dreamed of in the 1916 Proclamation. Contrasted with destitution, systemic failures in mental health care reduces lives to dwelling in doorways and laneways. My practice seeks to shine light on hidden corners exposing overlooked grim realities. ‘Can You See Me?’ presents a range of work in ink, acrylic, liquid charcoal on paper and spray paint on canvas. This is accompanied by a combination of video and sculptural installation.

Different elements are designed to evoke emotion and contemplation, inspiring the viewer to alter their perspective and focus, to reflect and re-evaluate.

Can you see me ? 1, Face in Heaven, spray paint on canvas, 140cm x 90cm

Can you see me ? 1, Face in Heaven, spray paint on canvas, 140cm x 90cm

Can you see me? 2, Meet me at the Pillar ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

Can you see me? 2, Meet me at the Pillar ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

Can you see me ? 7, ink and liquid charcoal on paper, 90cm x 70cm

Can you see me ? 7, ink and liquid charcoal on paper, 90cm x 70cm

Can you see me ?, ink, acrylic, paint on paper, 48cm x 39cm

Can you see me ?, ink, acrylic, paint on paper, 48cm x 39cm

Can you see me? 11, Pillars of Power, lino print on paper, 15cm x 15cm

Can you see me? 11, Pillars of Power, lino print on paper, 15cm x 15cm

With or Without You Mark 2, ink and liquid charcoal on paper, 43cm x 38cm

With or Without You Mark 2, ink and liquid charcoal on paper, 43cm x 38cm

Can you see me ?, Pillars of Power 2, ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

Can you see me ?, Pillars of Power 2, ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

Can you see me? 8, ink, acrylic, gold spray paint on paper, 48cm x 39cm

Can you see me? 8, ink, acrylic, gold spray paint on paper, 48cm x 39cm

Can you see me?, Self Reflection, installed sculpture wire, gauze, found objects, mirrors, spray paint

Can you see me?, Self Reflection, installed sculpture wire, gauze, found objects, mirrors, spray paint

Can you see me? 2, Meet me at the Pillar, close-up detail, ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

Can you see me? 2, Meet me at the Pillar, close-up detail, ink & liquid charcoal on paper, 140cm x 240cm

'Can you See me?' video installation

Research

<p>Process, spray paint on paper</p>

Process, spray paint on paper

<p>Process experiment, plaster and wire sculpture with <em>Face in Heaven</em> lights and shadows</p>

Process experiment, plaster and wire sculpture with Face in Heaven lights and shadows

<p>Process research, paper, gauze, spray paint</p>

Process research, paper, gauze, spray paint

<p><em>Le Perroquet Wicklow Street</em>, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm</p>

Le Perroquet Wicklow Street, acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 50cm

<p><em>Presidents Blue</em>, acrylic on paper, 90cm x 70cm</p>

Presidents Blue, acrylic on paper, 90cm x 70cm