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

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6–14 June

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Sun 8 10am–5pm
Mon 9 10am–8pm
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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
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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Fri 13 June 10am–6pm
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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art

MFA in Fine Art

Aoife Nolan

Samadhi / Home

My practice explores connections and memories, as experienced through deep time, land, language and the body. An embodied research-led methodology situated within the landscape informs my practice, here my awareness of rock is reinforced, contributing an active role in its steadfast solidity beneath the page and underfoot.

My practice considers sites of connection as active spaces, with multiple potentialities for exchange, new ways of becoming and of being, where perceptions may shift, where ecological, existential and somatic inquiry may occur and where new understandings or questions may arise.

I am drawn to art's capacity to be simultaneously an archive and an active field of communication. If we had access to a language deeply connecting us across past and present timelines, lived and subconscious memories, would such a language or code impact how we interact with earth, how we feel about it, relate to it and integrate as part of it?

Lying Down in the Rain, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm — Lying Down in the Rain, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm

Rustling, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 42 x 29cm — Rustling, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 42 x 29cm

Snail Script, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 42 x 29cm — Snail Script, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 42 x 29cm

Circle on Rock, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm — Circle on Rock, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm

Skin to Skin, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm — Skin to Skin, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm

Site of Contact, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm — Site of Contact, photograph on archival mould-made watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm

Detail of painting resulting from At the Rock performative drawing, sea water, water soluble graphite on Fabriano watercolour paper, 150 x 1000cm — Detail of painting resulting from At the Rock performative drawing, sea water, water soluble graphite on Fabriano watercolour paper, 150 x 1000cm

Detail of silk banner resulting from performative drawing in the landscape. Water soluble graphite, sea water, sand blown by wind, on silk and watercolour ground, 92 x 7000cm

Considering sites of connection between human and landscape, as active sites of potential exchange, new ways of becoming and new understandings. Sites where perceptions may shift, deep memory may reawaken and new information or inquiry may arrive. Performative drawing at the rock.

Research

<p>Mono-print lifted directly from the surface of rock in landscape, sea water, water soluble graphite, sand, on canvas and watercolour ground, 50 x 150cm</p> — Mono-print lifted directly from the surface of rock in landscape, sea water, water soluble graphite, sand, on canvas and watercolour ground, 50 x 150cm

<p><em>Rock Lungs</em>, (left) photograph on archival watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm, detail from silk banner (right), mono-print lifted directly from exact rock surface shown in photograph and reworked by drawing in studio. Water soluble graphite, sea water, sand, on silk and watercolour ground, 92 x 7000cm</p> — Rock Lungs, (left) photograph on archival watercolour paper, 29 x 42cm, detail from silk banner (right), mono-print lifted directly from exact rock surface shown in photograph and reworked by drawing in studio. Water soluble graphite, sea water, sand, on silk and watercolour ground, 92 x 7000cm