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.

Thomas St Campus

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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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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
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Media

Suzanne Leamy

she/her

Lines of Memory

Suzanne Leamy’s practice demonstrates a blend of personal narrative and visual expression. She focuses on her father’s life and career with Irish Rail using a mix of materials such as ledgers and carbon paper. Drawing inspiration from artists such as David Hockney and Sophie Calle, Suzanne’s work captures moments of authenticity and introspection.

Her process involves retracing her father’s life journeys, using photography as a foundation for her visual storytelling. In her studio, Suzanne combines delicate lines and careful placement to craft compositions that merge memory, emotion, and the passage of time. Through her art, Leamy explores the complexities of life and while aiming to capture the essence of her father’s story she has begun to build toward a larger narrative where the viewer is invited to contemplate the many layers of human experience.

Dad, Ledger, ink on ledger paper

Dad, Ledger, ink on ledger paper

Dad, pencil study, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad, pencil study, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad, ink study, drawing using ink & watercolour

Dad, ink study, drawing using ink & watercolour

Skin & Hair, watercolour and thread

Skin & Hair, watercolour and thread

Switzers Study 1, carbon & pencil drawing

Switzers Study 1, carbon & pencil drawing

Switzers Study 2, carbon & pencil drawing on envelope

Switzers Study 2, carbon & pencil drawing on envelope

Dad Stripes, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad Stripes, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad, Shirt & Tie, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad, Shirt & Tie, coloured pencil on brown paper

Dad at Home, carbon & coloured pencil on rice paper

Dad at Home, carbon & coloured pencil on rice paper

Research

<p><em>Train Journeys Study 1</em>, carbon drawing on invoice slips</p>

Train Journeys Study 1, carbon drawing on invoice slips

<p><em>Train Journeys Study 5</em>, carbon drawing on invoice slip</p>

Train Journeys Study 5, carbon drawing on invoice slip

<p><em>Switzers Study 3</em>, carbon drawing on cartridge paper</p>

Switzers Study 3, carbon drawing on cartridge paper

<p><em>Train Journeys</em> <em>from the Archive</em>, photography, train tickets</p>

Train Journeys from the Archive, photography, train tickets

<p><em>Dad at Home</em>, pencil & carbon drawing, study on cartridge paper</p>

Dad at Home, pencil & carbon drawing, study on cartridge paper