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
Applied Materials
Media
Painting
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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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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art
MFA Art in the Contemporary World

Grace Gifford House

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Media

Tallon

VIVISECTION

What if entropy was not disorder, but the live dissection of space. Cracks, tears, edges, the limits of experience and capacity. Patterns of decay, code for the motion toward no thing. That is, if nothing can “be”, as I’m yet to meet it. Yet still, like seeking silence with the clapping stop of noise, I'll seek ends at the edge of continuums.

In the application of paint and uncovering of composition, I begin a self-referential process, to deconstruct the anatomy of the frames I’m working with through geometry and measurement. Driven in this pursuit of an end, while finding edges at every corner, I explore the boundaries of experience, language, philosophy, science and faith. I do so via writing, which spurs my use of contrasting aesthetics and techniques through many mediums.

I find myself meditating over the visual conflicts that this presents, conflicts that arise between the adoption of normative aesthetics and the desire to undermine them. Facing the edges of my capabilities, and the continuous nature of failure in the pursuit of ideals, framed in time, I empathise with these square fringes of canvas butting up against the surface of the real, showcasing their limitations and pointing beyond themselves.

Corpus Callosum, graphite, oil paint, spray paint on gessoed paper & canvas, 200cm x 185cm

Corpus Callosum, graphite, oil paint, spray paint on gessoed paper & canvas, 200cm x 185cm

VIVISECTION, installation shot (Orange and Green Study & Scapegrace)

VIVISECTION, installation shot (Orange and Green Study & Scapegrace)

Scapegrace caught in mirror, oil, spray paint, Human Tissue Bill 2022 (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display), The Human Tissue Act, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, match ash on linen & graphite on canvas, 185cm x 200cm

Scapegrace caught in mirror, oil, spray paint, Human Tissue Bill 2022 (transplantation, post-mortem, anatomical examination and public display), The Human Tissue Act, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, match ash on linen & graphite on canvas, 185cm x 200cm

 VIVISECTION, installation shot (Scapegrace & Corpus Callosum)

 VIVISECTION, installation shot (Scapegrace & Corpus Callosum)

Scapegrace, close-up detail

Scapegrace, close-up detail

Scapegrace, close-up detail

Scapegrace, close-up detail

VIVISECTION, installation shot

VIVISECTION, installation shot

VIVISECTION, installation shot (Corpus Callosum)

VIVISECTION, installation shot (Corpus Callosum)

Orange and Green Study, installation shot

Orange and Green Study, installation shot

Corpus Callosum, graphite, oil paint, spray paint, ink, paper, The Human Tissue Act, on gessoed canvas, 183cm x 197cm

Corpus Callosum, graphite, oil paint, spray paint, ink, paper, The Human Tissue Act, on gessoed canvas, 183cm x 197cm

Orange and Green Study, installation shot

Orange and Green Study, installation shot

VIVISECTION installation shot (Orange and Green Study & Scapegrace)

VIVISECTION installation shot (Orange and Green Study & Scapegrace)

ALL ROUTES, close-up detail

ALL ROUTES, close-up detail

ALL ROUTES, close-up detail

ALL ROUTES, close-up detail

ALL ROUTES, car primer, oil paint & ink on torn linen, 225cm x 225cm

ALL ROUTES, car primer, oil paint & ink on torn linen, 225cm x 225cm

Video intro, delivered as part of a module in the MFA course at NCAD

Research

<p><em>you say,</em> rust, oil paint, oil stick, spray paint on canvas</p>

you say, rust, oil paint, oil stick, spray paint on canvas

<p><em>Untitled</em>, installed as part of public art project 'PERSIST', oil paint, graphite, highlighter on gessoed canvas</p>

Untitled, installed as part of public art project 'PERSIST', oil paint, graphite, highlighter on gessoed canvas

<p><em>Trial and Error</em>, scraps</p>

Trial and Error, scraps