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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Wed 12 June 10am–8pm
Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
Fri 14 June 10am–8pm
Sat 15 June 10am–5pm

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

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Fri 7 June 10am–8pm
Sat 8 June 10am–5pm
Sun 9 June 10am–5pm
Mon 10 June 10am–8pm
Tue 11 June 10am–8pm
Wed 12 June 10am–8pm
Thu 13 June 10am–8pm
Fri 14 June 10am–8pm
Sat 15 June 10am–5pm

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Media

Sculpture & Expanded Practice

Ray Kane Brady

he/him

Ballymun and Dyslexia: An academic story of poverty and shame

Colour and concrete defined my childhood. We found solace only in the cold, unyielding embrace of concrete. Yet, concrete absorbed our lives, reflecting and illuminating our poverty.

Colours are a conduit for our lived energies. The hues hummed with vibrancy, echoing our lived experiences. They cried out, ‘We existed here. We dreamed, fought, and loved here…’ Our voices, however, faded into the recesses of memory, silenced by Foucault’s normalising power, which only bred shame.

But through academic achievement and opportunity, my self-perception underwent a transformation. I now reclaim dignity by incorporating impoverished materials; like concrete, steel, and canvas into my artwork. The vividness of these hues reverberates with the intricate processes and resonances of our lived realities.

Ray (Kane) Brady is a Dublin based artist concerned with dyslexic learning and how a childhood in Ballymun shapes his practice.

Ballymun, a deconstructed tower

Dyslexia part of my work

Graffiti on concrete blocks

Installation view, NCAD

Poem on cavity blocks entitled 'To Neurodivergency'

Poem on cavity blocks entitled 'To People'

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view, NCAD 2024

final year degree installation

Shame of being born in Ballymun and learning to cope with dyslexia

Research

<p>Research into — Research into "energy of lived experience" using vibrant colours and concrete

<p>Two poems on concrete, 'To Neurodivergent' and 'To People'</p> — Two poems on concrete, 'To Neurodivergent' and 'To People'

<p><em>Sean MacDermott Tower</em>, oil paint on canvas</p> — Sean MacDermott Tower, oil paint on canvas

<p><em>Ballymun Tower</em>, oil paint on canvas</p> — Ballymun Tower, oil paint on canvas

<p>Demilition of Ballymun flat to reveal the energy of people</p> — Demilition of Ballymun flat to reveal the energy of people