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

Doirean Kavanagh Byrne

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The Genetrix

'The Genetrix', or mother—the source of life—is a response to fears surrounding pregnancy, bioethics, and reproduction as measures of worth under the pressure of our androcentric society. Through a focus on the pig farming industry and its oppressive, enclosed breeding spaces, comparisons are drawn to female-oriented hospital wards and the gynaecological pathologies that weigh down female lives, their loves, hopes, and desires.

This work explores dystopian fears grounded in reality for those born with a uterus: the loss of bodily autonomy and being subjected to becoming a producer used for its biology, like the humble pig.

Movement is power, and the motif of the kept animal serves as a fitting metaphor for the socialised human experience under patriarchy. The Genetrix seeks to position the viewer both as voyeur and the viewed, entertaining the possibility that one is never free from external perceptions.

The Genetrix, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view — The Genetrix, NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, installation view with artist

Long Pig, still image from video — Long Pig, still image from video

NCAD Works 2025 exhibition, video installation view

Free Animal, still image from video — Free Animal, still image from video

Teaching Placements

Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire Primary School, Dublin 1
Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School, Drimnagh, Dublin 9
Gorey Community School, Co. Wexford
Sandymount Park Educate Together, Dublin 4