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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Nicola Richardson Maher

she/her

Bringing the Colour Back

Hospital admissions can be scary and saddening for children and adults alike. As children we are sheltered from the harsh reality of health issues through bright colours, toys and distractions in children’s hospitals. We then as adults are moved to a dull, colourless and cold atmosphere. For adults who are constantly admitted to hospital through chronic illness, this consistently unpleasant atmosphere can take a toll on their mental health.

As a young woman with Cystic Fibrosis, my target audience was other young women with chronic illnesses who are hospitalised regularly. My first body of work is an illustrated colourful magazine filled with inspiring words aimed to lift the moods of the patient. I designed sleeping masks aimed to help with broken sleep experienced by many women in such places. My final outcome is a set of three acrylic and mixed media paintings highlighting some other common issues that young women feel affects them when hospitalised.

I designed a magazine targeted towards young women with frequent hospital stays. This magazine contains a mix of advice, reassurance, humour, hacks and activities. I made it very bright ,colourful and playful as a means to bring the colour back into hospital stays. This magazine will be donated to Cystic Fibrosis wards across Ireland.

The magazine contains a free sticker sheet. The stickers are included to give a nostalgic feeling as with childhood magazines there are always small treats added. Such as stickers and badges. These stickers are anatomy themed with some hidden references to Cystic Fibrosis.

Pages 15-16 in 'The patients playbook'

Reading pages 18-19

Pages 5-6

Page 10-11. Advice on dealing with fear of needles.

Prints from the magazine that I sold to raise funding to print the magazine's

I designed sleeping masks as an outcome to solve a massive problem that majority suffer with in the hospital. I designed these colourful sleeping masks to aid ones sleep in the hospital. Blocking out any lights that come in to the room. As well as looking gorgeous!

My lovely sister testing the product. She approves.

'Suffocated by scripts' Acrylic on A2 canvas. The aim of this painting is to show how overwhelming having such a large medical routine can be. You are constantly asked questions, worried about side effects, confused when to take them and then the routine can often be changed around when admitted to hospital. It is quite overwhelming and many young women have exclaimed how overwhelming it can be.