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

DECODER LOOP // TAPE.ECHO.SIGNAL an Experimental Performative Conversation. exchange between MFA graduate Artist Melissa O’Donnell and NCAD’s Francis Halsall, writer and educator. *Ticketed Event*

TICKETED BOOKING: LINK
Recording permission from audience requested.

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An invitation to an exchange between Francis Halsall, writer and educator and MFA graduate Artist Melissa O’Donnell supported by co Arthology Collective artists Eileen O’Sullivan & Monika Crowley with audience participation encouraged.

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Building on Francis Halsall’s earlier experiments in dialogue with Basic Space: Dirty Solutions and his performative conversation with Mark O’Gorman at the Hugh Lane, Decoder Loop continues to explore conversation as a site of communication and control.

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For this event the staging of conditions and assignment of roles serve as both structure and provocation. Vocal projection techniques, syncopated rhythms, and metronomic tempos form a musical underpinning, which is intentionally disrupted—inviting glitches, interruptions, and moments of failure as integral to the process.

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Artist Tag @wecantrewindwevegonetoofar (Instagram)

Contact details melissaodonnellartist@gmail.com

Website www.melissaodonnell.com

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Melissa O’Donnell is an interdisciplinary artist whose MFA work examines the societal impact of powerful systems and institutional marginalisation through painting and her self-devised De:Coding Framework. By combining cognitive strategies with experimental processes, she explores how we perceive and respond to systemic issues. Using repurposed materials, coded visuals, and moving images, her practice invites reflection, resistance, and re-engagement with dominant narratives—often through a lens informed by neurodiverse cognitive approaches.

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Francis Halsall is a lecturer in Visual Culture at National College of Art and Design, Dublin where he is co-director of the Master Program: Art in the Contemporary World. He works on ideas of systems and their cultural and philosophical significance. His book Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion (Routledge, 2024) recently came out in paperback.


Friday 13 June / 1:00 PM
Duration: 60 Minutes

LOCATION: Rua Red Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin D24 KV8N, Ireland.

Image: Dr. Francis Halsall and Melissa O'Donnell, MFA NCAD Artist.