Professor Sarah Glennie ∙ Director

NCAD WORKS 2025 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.

We are extremely proud of this year’s graduating students who each in different  ways demonstrate NCAD’s belief in the vital contribution that creative practice makes to our society as a force that creates space for care, reflection, innovation and new thinking—all of which are essential to a cohesive and dynamic society and economy. 

NCAD’s graduates are the pipeline that drive Ireland’s creative and cultural sectors and their work will have an impact across society in years to come. 

Their own lived experience of our complex world is central to our graduates’ work.  As part of their journey, NCAD students have the opportunity to develop their creative practice beyond the walls of campus through long-term engagements with community partners and collaborators in a range of settings.  These collaborations expand their experience and understanding of key societal issues such as housing, cultural identity and social cohesion and climate crises, and are reflected in their final projects.

The work of this generation of NCAD students not only provides critical insights into society today, but also reminds us that the possibility of transformation exists with fresh, solution-focused thinking. Their creativity reinforces the power of art and design to influence and inspire real change. 

We hope you enjoy this digital experience of the work of our extraordinary graduates. 

We are extremely proud of all that they have achieved, and we look forward to following their creative journeys in the future.

Thomas St Campus

100 Thomas Street
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6–14 June

Fri 6 6pm–9pm
Sat 7 10am–5pm
Sun 8 10am–5pm
Mon 9 10am–8pm
Tue 10 10am–8pm
Wed 11 10am–8pm
Thu 12 10am–8pm
Fri 13 10am–8pm
Sat 14 10am–6pm

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
BA Applied Materials
Textile Art & Artefact
Hard Materials (Ceramics & Glass)
Media
Painting
Print
Sculpture & Expanded Practice
BA Visual Culture
MA Interaction Design
Prof. Dip. Service Design

Rua Red

Plás Parthalán, Tallaght
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7–14 June

Sat 7 June 10am–6pm
Sun 8 June Closed
Mon 9 June 10am–6pm
Tues 10 June 10am–6pm
Wed 11 June 10am–6pm
Thur 12 June 10am–6pm
Fri 13 June 10am–6pm
Sat 14 June 10am–6pm

Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art



First Year Studies

It has been a pleasure for our team to work with these First Year students, their energy and enthusiasm has been inspiring, our external visitors from other colleges this year have been really impressed by their productivity and bold creativity, and they have been described as ‘fearless’ in their willingness to explore and experiment.

For us, this is bold and curious practice in action, First Year in NCAD is designed as a period of exploration, trying out, pushing the boundaries of what you already know, testing new ideas and processes, and working with new and diverse groups of people in our common entry programme.

All our students entering NCAD’s studio programme, no matter what their entry route, come together to work and create together. Each individual taking a route through a range of optional projects so that by the end of the year they all finally join into one of the 14 specialist areas available across the schools of art and design.

We support our students in finding and establishing their preferences for degree study and in testing the choices they have already made.

As they transition into third level, we emphasise engagement, making connections, developing both individual expression and the capacity to perceive and learn from each other. It’s rigorous and it’s buoyant.

We present here a selection of images from our end of year presentation, representing  the work produced in the final six week module of the academic year. We hope you enjoy the work and gain a sense of the energy, the breadth of possibility, the richness and the excitement of the programme.

Professor Mary Avril Gillan
Head of First Year Art & Design Studies