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

‘Co-!’ A campus-wide series of conversations, interventions, and presentations from graduates of the BA Visual Culture programme.

As part of NCAD Works 2025, the BA in Visual Culture presents Co-!, a campus-wide series of conversations, interventions, and presentations. This eclectic program showcases the research-driven practices emerging from the BA in Visual Culture, highlighting visuality as a collaborative, transformative, and dynamic field of study.
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Friday, 6 June, 6PM.
Co-! Opens in the NCAD Gallery Foyer (video and manifesto).
A conceptual interplay of phrases centred on Co-! as a modifier and expression. Presented in this context as a collective manifesto, Co-! enacts a textual shift from a word’s singular existence into mutual ways of being. Location: NCAD Gallery Foyer, text, video and hand-outs.

Co-posters! by Filippa Voigt
Filippa has designed and produced a series of posters displayed throughout the NCAD campus, featuring quotes and statistics from her research. Each poster uses the Co-! identity to highlight the ongoing price disparity between female Impressionist artists and their male counterparts in today’s auction market. By distributing the posters across the College, the project makes visible the relationship of research in Visual Culture to other departments, while connecting to broader conversations about cultural value(s). Various sites throughout the NCAD campus from June 6th, 2025.

Co-insta! Soft launch of Co-! on @visualculture_ncad.

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Sunday, 8 June, 12PM Noon, Duration 30 Minutes.
Co-ambulate!
Join Mary Maxwell for a walk-and-talk through the NCAD campus that lingers on the textures of visual culture. The tour will focus on key locations where the Visual Culture programme unfolds —such as the Edward Murphy Library, NIVAL, and the Harry Clarke Building — as well as sites where final-year BA Visual Culture students are exhibiting and performing their research. Location: Tour begins in the NCAD Gallery Foyer on Sunday, June 8th at 12 noon.

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Tuesday, 10 June, 4PM-6PM.
4PM Co-cinema! presentation in Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, by Sean McGuinness Ruiz, Dominika Ruiz Rodriguez and Aoife Walsh.

A collaborative event by Seán McGuinness Ruiz, Dominika Ruiz Rodriguez, and Aoife Walsh that reimagines film events as lived, performative experiences. Seán McGuinness Ruiz presents The Cost of Repression and the Unmasking of Desires, an exploration of the fractured psyche through curated clips from Taxi Driver and Eyes Wide Shut. Seán guides the audience through a psychoanalytic reading of repression, identity fragmentation, and the male gaze, drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Laura Mulvey, and bell hooks. The session concludes with an embodied writing exercise with the audience. Dominika Ruiz Rodriguez shares her research on the relationship between psychoanalysis and artistic creativity. Her talk interweaves Immanuel Kant’s theories of transcendence with Carl Jung’s studies on the unconscious and memory. Aoife Walsh presents a short video essay examining girlhood, the male gaze, and spectatorship. Drawing on the writings of Laura Mulvey, Fiona Hayward, Jacques Lacan, Natasha Walter, and others, the piece focuses on the representation of girls and women in cinema, with particular attention to the work of Sofia Coppola. Location: Harry Clark Lecture Theatre, Tuesday, June 10th at 4PM.
5PM Co-open! Visual Culture reception for graduating students, families and friends,

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Wednesday, 11 June, 12.30PM, Duration 15 Minutes.
Co-talk! lecture-performance by Aoife Meates in the Design building, 2nd Floor, Room 209.
A scripted lecture-perfomance accompanied by a slide show, exploring Aoife Meate’s research project entitled, Dressed Becomings: Encounters with Nature and Technology. Featuring case studies from Alexander McQueen, Arca and Iris Van Herpen, and drawing from theorists such as Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing and Anneke Smelik, the talk extends their research findings into other stories of hope for a new world, including experiences of club culture that inspired the project. Duration: 15 minutes. Location: Room 209, Design Building, Wednesday, June 11th at 12.30PM.

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Thursday, 12 June, 12PM Noon.
12PM Co-takeover! TBT Instagram takeover by 2024s VC graduates on @visualculture_ncad.


Friday 6 June / 6:00 PM

LOCATION: NCAD Gallery Foyer & Design Building