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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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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BA Fashion

Rachel Monahan

she/her

Transfiguration

“A complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state”

'Transfiguration' is a printed textile, woven fashion collection that demonstrates the rebirth and renewal of derelict buildings in Dublin. The beauty evident within the abandonment and decay of these gems of architecture inspired the design of this collection giving them a new life, in a new form.

The buildings have stood the test of time forming a link between the past and the future. Using techniques such as heat transfer printing, sewing and extensive sampling, this collection showcases my expression and emotion towards the transfiguration of buildings in the form of textile fashion.

Outfit 1, prints created from sketch book of the Iveagh Market

Close-up detail, hand dyed cord manipulating the material around it to create an interesting affect

Detail shot, the garment has multiple neck lines allowing for the garment to be positioned differently on the body, without changing the structure of the garment

Outfit 2, the garment has multiple neck holes to allow the garment to shift and change appearance without changing the structure of the garment

The altered neckline allows for the rushing detail to manipulate the garment and allow a different shape

Close-up detail of the rushing detail with the matching dyed cord

Outfit 3, An Iveagh Market doorway printed onto the garment together with a moveable separate door suggesting movement

Using the location that inspired this collection for the photoshoot

Photo detail showcases the pull string design which allows garment to be adjusted

Transfiguration, garments side by side and photographed in the environment that inspired them — Transfiguration, garments side by side and photographed in the environment that inspired them

Research

<p>Location shot, Iveagh Market, Dublin</p> — Location shot, Iveagh Market, Dublin

<p>Location shot, Iveagh Market, Dublin</p> — Location shot, Iveagh Market, Dublin

<p>Chamber Street, Dublin</p> — Chamber Street, Dublin

<p>Ardee Street, Dublin </p> — Ardee Street, Dublin

<p>Cork Street, Dublin 8</p> — Cork Street, Dublin 8