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
Tue 10 10am–8pm
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Thu 12 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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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

Dominika Ruiz Rodriguez

she/her

Dreams: The First Lens of Cinema

'Dreams: The First Lens of Cinema' explores dreams as an artistic practice in film, tracing their emergence through Surrealist experimentation and the influence of psychoanalysis on visual culture. The focus is on three key areas:

  • How dreams shape cinematic techniques, using visual effects and fragmented storytelling.

  • The portrayal of the unconscious in Maya Deren’s 'Meshes of the Afternoon' (1943), emphasising its experimental form.

  • The role of dreams and memory in Pedro Almodóvar’s 'Pain and Glory' (2019), where substances alter recollections and water symbolises the divide between consciousness and the unconscious.

Dominika Ruiz is a cultural researcher and curator with interests in film aesthetics, screenwriting, music, and art history. She studied at Università di Bologna (Erasmus+) and, in 2024, wrote a catalogue essay for 'Belong', an exhibition at the European Parliament Office in Ireland. She aims to curate international film events, deepen her research in film and visual culture, and pursue art direction.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), silent short-film by M. Deren and A. Hackenschmied

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), silent short-film by M. Deren and A. Hackenschmied

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), silent short-film by M. Deren and A. Hackenschmied

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), silent short-film by M. Deren and A. Hackenschmied

Emak Bakia (1926), Man Ray
'O Cavalheiro Divino Os Deuses Vivos do Haiti', Maya Deren

Research

<p><em>Pain and Glory (2019)</em> by P. Almodóvar and El Deseo</p>

Pain and Glory (2019) by P. Almodóvar and El Deseo

<p><em>Pain and Glory</em> (2019), P. Almodóvar and El Deseo</p>

Pain and Glory (2019), P. Almodóvar and El Deseo