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
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MA Design for Body & Environment
MA Communication Design
MA Interaction Design
MSC Medical Device Design
Prof Dip Service Design
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MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

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Media

Stephanie Teixeira-Agbele

she/her

HAIR HISTORIES

Ask any woman and she will tell you. Her relationship with her hair is like a love affair. My project explores the relationship between cultural identity and hair through the lens of POC women living in Ireland; investigating early childhood experiences through illustration and textiles.

As a member of the Black community, I admit that we often take the significance of hair to another level. This is due to it being traced back to our African ancestors. ‘Locs of Love’ is an interactive softbook showcasing the personal experiences of the POC community, informed by first-hand interviews with women in Ireland that examine how their relationship with their hair has evolved.

My illustrated book, ‘My Puffy Fluffy Power’ sheds light on what the majority of POC have experienced with their hair during their upbringing in Ireland. The purpose of this project is to empower the young Black community through this project.

My Puffy Fluffy Power is a collaborative illustrated book, between myself and author Shauna Harris. It is a story sharing the universal struggles both black boys and girls face when it comes to the relationship they face when it comes to their hair.

My Puffy Fluffy Power is a collaborative illustrated book, between myself and author Shauna Harris. It is a story sharing the universal struggles both black boys and girls face when it comes to the relationship they face when it comes to their hair.

Sneak peak of ‘My Puffy Fluffy Power’, publication, 21cm x 21cm & 30cm x 30cm

Sneak peak of ‘My Puffy Fluffy Power’, publication, 21cm x 21cm & 30cm x 30cm

My Puffy Fluffy Power, page 11 & 12

My Puffy Fluffy Power, page 11 & 12

My Puffy Fluffy Power, page 1 & 2

My Puffy Fluffy Power, page 1 & 2

Locs of Love, an interactive soft book showcasing the personal experiences of the POC community, informed by first-hand interviews

Locs of Love, an interactive soft book showcasing the personal experiences of the POC community, informed by first-hand interviews

Hand sewed portrait on page 3 from the soft book, Locs of Love

Hand sewed portrait on page 3 from the soft book, Locs of Love

Embroidered text from Locs of Love

Embroidered text from Locs of Love

Portrait design for stickers

Portrait design for stickers

No bad hair days, stickers, 8cm x 5cm

No bad hair days, stickers, 8cm x 5cm

Research

<p>Font prototypes on fabric using multi-head embroidery machine for the soft book, <em>Locs of Love</em></p>

Font prototypes on fabric using multi-head embroidery machine for the soft book, Locs of Love

<p>Testing out the layouts for the questions for <em>Locs of Love</em></p>

Testing out the layouts for the questions for Locs of Love

<p>Usage of multi-head machine for the opening page on <em>Locs of Love</em></p>

Usage of multi-head machine for the opening page on Locs of Love

<p>Notebook layout sketch beside final out come, idea to realisation on soft book</p>

Notebook layout sketch beside final out come, idea to realisation on soft book

<p>Sketched mood board beside final outcome for comparison from <em>My Puffy Fluffy Power</em></p>

Sketched mood board beside final outcome for comparison from My Puffy Fluffy Power

Teaching Placements

2nd Year Placement- Dundalk Grammar School
March 2022-May 2023

3rd Year Placement- St. Mary’s College Dundalk
February 2023- May 2023

4th Year Placement- Dundalk Grammar School
October 2023-December 2024