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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102–3 James’ Street
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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

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Media

Nicole Manning

she/her

To continue to live even when you don’t have the stomach for it

In this body of work, I delve into the intricate subject of chronic pain, examining its manifestation as a result of trauma and its embodiment in the human form - with emphasis on the stomach. This autobiographical series is rooted in my personal journey with chronic stomach pain, exploring the interplay between PTSD, mental challenges, the brain-to-gut connection and physical afflictions.

Within my series of paintings, I aim to encapsulate the common symptoms associated with PTSD through the use of rich symbolism, such as the deer representing hyper-vigilance. Consequently, this series embodies underlying themes of vulnerability and courage, fear and fearlessness, bravery and cowardice. Through the imagery of curled bodies, I seek to convey the visceral experience of enduring this debilitating and dominating stomach pain.

By illuminating the often invisible complexities of chronic pain, I aim to provoke a deeper engagement with its pervasive prevalence and profound implications on the human experience.

Teeming with Fear (and Fearlessness), 2024, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

Teeming with Fear (and Fearlessness), 2024, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

Rotting to the Core, 2024, oil on canvas, 150cm x 110cm

Rotting to the Core, 2024, oil on canvas, 150cm x 110cm

I'll dress like your niece and wash your swollen feet, 2024, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

I'll dress like your niece and wash your swollen feet, 2024, oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm

Cruel Nature has Won Again, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 110cm x 160cm

Cruel Nature has Won Again, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 110cm x 160cm

Cheer up sleepy Jean, 2024, oil on canvas, 120cm x 130cm

Cheer up sleepy Jean, 2024, oil on canvas, 120cm x 130cm

Echoes of Longing, 2024, oil on canvas, 70cm x 100cm

Echoes of Longing, 2024, oil on canvas, 70cm x 100cm

Pearly Gates, 2024, oil on canvas, 80cm x 60cm

Pearly Gates, 2024, oil on canvas, 80cm x 60cm

To continue to live even when you don't have the stomach for it, 2024, installation view

To continue to live even when you don't have the stomach for it, 2024, installation view

Roadkill, 2024, stoneware clay sculpture

Roadkill, 2024, stoneware clay sculpture

To continue to live even when you don't have the stomach for it, 2024, installation view

To continue to live even when you don't have the stomach for it, 2024, installation view

Research

<p>Studio insights image, 2024</p>

Studio insights image, 2024

Teaching Placements

New Cross College: Finglas (6 weeks)
St. Vincents: Glasnevin (10 weeks)
Sutton Park: Sutton (10 weeks)