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.

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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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Courses on show:

MFA in Fine Art

Higher Diploma in Art

Cecilia Lopez-Naughton

she/her

Family Khipu and Ritual / Refuge Vessels

My work explores reclamation of origins and the search for a new home through a process of deconstructing, joining, gathering, and, making objects that recall protection (although precarious), alongside ideas of refuge, ritual and remembrance.

The work is fragmented, made from shredding materials which have history and are reconfigured and cast into new large-scale works which defiantly occupy space. With an Irish-Salvadoran identity, borderlands are a key touchstone, exploring the blurring of the imaginary lines that ‘separate’. The civil war and post war violence scattered my family everywhere. Here in Ireland, I found a new home with a similar history of colonialism, civil war, and borderlands.

This body of work combines 3D works using worn and discarded materials that explore themes relating to weathering, layers of time, with cloth imbued with memory— as well as presence and absence— as a means to connect the objects made to a life lived.

Refuge/Ritual Vessels, fibre paper, linen, cotton, plant, spices, mineral mud dyes, 22 x 24 x 24cm (sizes vary) — Refuge/Ritual Vessels, fibre paper, linen, cotton, plant, spices, mineral mud dyes, 22 x 24 x 24cm (sizes vary)

Family Khipu and Ritual / Refuge Vessels, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — Family Khipu and Ritual / Refuge Vessels, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

Refuge/Ritual Blue & Orange Vessel, fibre paper, cotton knit, low relief plaster cast with beans insert, 50 x 40 x 30cm — Refuge/Ritual Blue & Orange Vessel, fibre paper, cotton knit, low relief plaster cast with beans insert, 50 x 40 x 30cm

Refuge/Ritual, felt and plaster vessel, 22 x 16 x 16cm — Refuge/Ritual, felt and plaster vessel, 22 x 16 x 16cm

Refuge/Ritual Vessels, mud dyed waxed linen, 20 x 26 x 22cm, plaster on felted wool, stitched and wrapped with sisal and cotton, 12 x 22cm — Refuge/Ritual Vessels, mud dyed waxed linen, 20 x 26 x 22cm, plaster on felted wool, stitched and wrapped with sisal and cotton, 12 x 22cm

Refuge/Ritual Green Vessel, screen printed linen, sisal and cotton stitching 24 x 24 x 20cm — Refuge/Ritual Green Vessel, screen printed linen, sisal and cotton stitching 24 x 24 x 20cm

Blue Vessel,fFibre paper, cotton, raffia, clay slip, 28 x 32 x 20cm — Blue Vessel,fFibre paper, cotton, raffia, clay slip, 28 x 32 x 20cm

Felted wool and clay slip vessels, wool, plaster, clay slip, installation view

Borderlands I, packaging cardboard, dip dyed handmade paper, acrylic, ink, 40 x 44cm — Borderlands I, packaging cardboard, dip dyed handmade paper, acrylic, ink, 40 x 44cm

Borderlands II, packaging, cardboard, dip dyed handmade paper, acrylic, ink, 44 x 40cm — Borderlands II, packaging, cardboard, dip dyed handmade paper, acrylic, ink, 44 x 40cm

Family and Art -family life in Ireland (visiting El Salvador after 30 years+) Irish landscape (the Burren) art works made at NCAD/CEAD

Research

<p>Material research (displacement/ journeys/ rituals), plaster, wax, copper mesh, sisal, seeds</p> — Material research (displacement/ journeys/ rituals), plaster, wax, copper mesh, sisal, seeds

<p>Material research, landscape (displacement/ journeys), watercolour, oil pastels, charcoal, acrylic, ink</p> — Material research, landscape (displacement/ journeys), watercolour, oil pastels, charcoal, acrylic, ink

<p>Material research (displacement/ journeys), wax cast, dried plant material, plaster</p> — Material research (displacement/ journeys), wax cast, dried plant material, plaster

Material research (displacement/journeys) wax cast, maple and oak leaves

Material research (displacement/journeys), wax casts, dried twigs